Faustus and Enron Critics

Hazlitt

‘a personification of the pride of will and eagerness of curiosity, sublimed beyond the reach of fear and remorse’

Billington

Marlovian over-reacher’

Jeffery

‘Faustus is a vulgar sorcerer, tempted to sell his soul to the devil for the ordinary price of sensual pleasure, and earthly power and glory’

Rebellto

‘Skilling is capitalism personified, his tragedy isn’t personal its systematic’

Cunningham

‘the last scene fills the soul with love and admiration as for a departed hero’

Hazzlit 2

Faustus was not in fact acting to fulfil his own selfish desires but as a martyr to collect knowledge for all of us’