ENRON critics

critic quote stating how the play exposes capitlism

(Billington)

“capitalism exposed as a con trick and illusion”

quote about hte plays lack of a real protaginist

(Clements)

“not giving the audience a heroic or good character to side with”

quote about hte questionable relatoinship between fastow and skilling

(Brantley)

“fraught with awkward homoerotic […] impulses”

quote about the machismo nature of trading

(clements)

“the adrenaline, the fear, the machismo of it, and the fact that it feels like a big game”

quote which highlights skillings transformation

(brantley)

skilling transforms from a awkward middle aged man to “an oil-slick master of the universe”

quote which suggests that maybe skilling is a likeable charcter

(rikowski)

“an ambitious entrepreneur living life to the full”

quote which compares skilling to christopher marlowe

(billington)

“skilling is a marlovian overreacher”

quote which shows how the company has replace d the role of the church in society.

(megson)

“the corporation has replaced the cathedral as the focus of fervent belief”

quote which connects faustus and enron through machismo ideas

(hemming)
“it probes into that faustian drive that makes men want to overreach themsevles”