Empire analysis

Empire episode 5 – one after another

·         Antagonist: Lucious as he is the person who made the problems with other families

·         The Doner: Hakeem because he tries to help his brother with his music career.

·         The Helper: Cookie tries to help her sons with his music while she has her own problems from which she is dealing with

·         The Princess: The singer as she has a certain type of song she wants to record but she is not aloud to record it

·         The father:  Becky tries to help the singer to record the song of her choice             

·         The dispatcher: Lucious, helps Hakeem in order to make sure he makes the right decision

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·         The false hero: Lucious, acts like he is a good family man to show that he cares when he is really pretending as he is the main cause of the family’s problems.

Equilibrium

Jamal has a stress disorder which he had got after being shot. He is trying his best in order to get back into the music industry as after he was shot he ad lost many fans and due to this he has asked his brother to help him to produce content for his music channel.

Disequilibrium

Both brothers decide to a live stream of Jamal’s new song however when they were both practing for the live stream they had a argument as each of the brothers did not like the way the other was performing their part of the song. They both wanted to do different things when it came to performing

Problem

When the live stream was live as the brothers were performing Hakeems crush and older brother was flirting together which made Hakeem upset as he did not like this therefore he has ruined the performance as it was his turn to performance and because of this both brothers were upset about the performance as a whole.