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Archetypal Characters In Empire

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Empire is Fox TV’s most watched TV series. It’s about a family that started a music company but at time went by money and greed started many problems for them. In this essay we will explore three archetypes found in Empire: The archetypal character scapegoat, archetypal color black and the archetypal character outcast.
A scapegoat is an innocent person who is blamed for the crime of ills off someone else. This is found in the show empire where Cookie Lyon goes to jail for seventeen years because she was caught in between Lucious Lyons drug dealing. Even though it was lucious selling drugs, she ends up going to jail for it.
The color black is defined as death, evil and mystery. The color black is seen on Empire multiple times. For example, on

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