ENRON quotes (:

quote from Skilling about changing the traditionall system

“Replaces the dark blind system that existed”

Skilling aims to exploit Capitalisms victory over communism post 1991 in order to push capitalism to its limits. The manichean imagery of darkness and blindness paints skilling as a christ like figure offering light to economics.

Quote from skilling with shades of nuclear disaster, and change.

“you push the button , were trying to change the world”

direct address here asks the audience to join the ideology of Enron to allow capitalism to be pushed to its bounadries. matches with Faustus as a hedonistic handbook.

quote from fastow talking about claudia. relates to the limited roles of women.

“Its like shes his carer”

-misogyny - women exist to please mens desires

quote from skilling relating to claudia, he mistakes her magazine picture for a fashion magazine.

“I believe i may have seen her in vogue”

allusion to vogue again relegates women to an object of male desire.

skilling mocks powerful women

“most powerful women!” (with use of italics when highlighting women - reflected in the 2010 rupert goold rendition of ENRON as Skillings prosody mocks women.)

quote from skilling which shows his alpha male posturing

“for those who dont know, im the reason your here”
in the 2010 rupert goold rendition of enron, Skillilng is in the proxemic centre of the stage, facing the audience. this posistions him as a christ like figure.

stage direction which highlights how enron believes capitlism has “won”

“Bill Clinton, the break up of the soviet union”

dramatic irony here - Clintons scandal and post cold war challenges.

could also be ironic as skilling is simply exploiting capitalism like america does.

quote from an enron employee which shows the beleif that companies have taken over the world .

“people who are gonna change things arent in parliaments or palaces, but in corporate boardrooms all over the united states of america”

-Enron rejects traditional institutions to embrace anarcho capitalism, like how faustus embraces individualistic hedonistic humansim.

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stage direction describing skillings sex paired with a following quote from claudia

“Skilling and roe finish having clothed, quick sex”
“ive been thinking about mark to market”

-stage direction focuses on pleasure

2010 rupert goold rendition of enron, in which the ‘sex’ lasts for a small moment before the kinesics show the actors stand up to discuss business.

quote from roe which hints to enrons attempts to override destiny.

“we are deciding what our own future profits will be”

quote from skilling which highlights his view of others below him.

“some people are fucking idiots”

Skilling’s condemnation of those who share a differrent world view to him as intellectually inferior match Faustus’s thoughts about the traditional schools of knowledge.

quote from skilling in which he describes his arena of transgression

“i love a workplace at night”

-manicheanism.

-mise en scene of 2010 version shows the stage to be rather empty, other than a table for sex. juxtaposes with ideas of “love” to emphasises skillings dark thoughts.

quote from claudia roe in which she deneis sex with skilling

“we didnt have penetrative sex on the enron jet!”

prebble invokes some level of bathos through this statement from roe, highlights the extremities of enron.

quote from roe as she describes skillings faith.

“and your a godless atheist”

-tautological nature of this statement emphasises skillings rejection of tradition.

quote from ken lay which has shades of frankenstein and creating a monster.

“When was Enron born”

anthropomorphism likens founders of enron to gods

quote from ken lay when he talks about his personal beliefs in various things

“I believe in god, i believe in democracy and i believe in the company”


-polysyndton sees Ken Lay confirm traditional american instutions.

quote from roe talking about the nature of life in enron.

“old fashioned, macho place to work”

quote from skilling talking about how wall street would be if he didnt hire the best.

“Make wall street look like sesame street”

-allusion emphasises skilling as an innovator

sexist quote from claudia roe

“thought i was the only woman in the room”

-enron has corrupted both men and women

Skilling from quote as he undermines the meaning of countries

“Countries are meaningless.”

anarcho capitalist declerative

metaphor from lay which highlights his visions

“I am oil and pipelines”

metaphor here highlights hubris.
-italics for emphasis reflected in Lay’s prosody in 2010 version

skillings describes his father?

“valve salesman”
he sold “tiny peices of something bigger he never saw”

-Skilling defies social hierarchy via social mobility
-his hubris however leads him to have no respect for the common man.

stage direction describing the nature of trading.

“filled with testosterone and joy” - machismo

stage direction describing Skilling on a treadmill

“hes pushing himself, and reslishing the physical challenge”

-like faustus, skilling is motivated by challenge.

quote from skilling about the philosphy he believes in

“i got this company running on darwinian principles”

-alllusion to darwins theory of survival of hte fittest shows Skilling’s view of humans as an expendible resource to acheive his goals.

quote from claudia roe which has shades of gambling

“its india ken, the size of it. dont you wantt some skin in that game?”

-metaphor here of gambling trivalisees the exploitation of foreign countries - like faustus.

stage direction describing skills treatment of contracts.

“treating them like autographs”

-simile highlights how Skilling’s hamartia of Hubris leads to his downfall.

quote from skillings daughter about money

“show me the money”

-Skilling's indoctrination of the innocent via materialistic obsessions
-allusions to 1996 film Jerry Maguire

stage direction which describes ljm

“below, darkly, fastows lair”

manichean connotations of an arena of transgression and sin.

quote from fastow describvbing his relationship with skilling.

“whose done more for me in this world”

- skilling almost trancends faustus and beecomes a mephitoopheles esque figure himself

fastow quote about porn

“i think porn could save every marriage in this country” - lack of regard for traditional institutions and a misunderstanding of the meaning of marriage.

quote from fastow in which he appoints a sexual idea to enron.

“i want to give Enron a mistress” -

-metaphor of mistress for LJM highlights misogny.

stage direction describing how people view skilling

“the photographer is beneath him to make him look impressive, god-like.”

-Skilling’s sacrilegious Hubris

-2010 version shows Skiling in the proxemic centre, above others to highlight power.

quote from roe, she highlights how business is starting to get superficial

“Things have started to get divorced from the underlying realities”

-Roe’s direct address higlights how Skilling has been successful in pushing capitalism to its limits in the 21st century.
-’divorce’ could be interpreted as sinful, but perhaps a rebellious escape from the boundaries ot traditional econmics.

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quote from roe, she describes the nature of the deals at enron.

“dosen’t matter if its a bad deal, just get the deal done.”

-like faustus, while enron comprehends the consequences of his actions, they still continue with them.

two quotes from all the traders, during the California electricity scandal

“the most beautiful thing about electricity - it cannot be stored”

-traders have taken Skilling’s philosophy.

-Mise en scene in 2010 sees star wars lightsabers - reference to economic policy of death star, and Enron as superficial and fantastical.

quote from a trader duriung hte California scandal, they apply sexual violence to their actions.

“lets rape this motherfucker” - ideas of sin.

quote from skilling to fastow, skilling sees himself as a creator/god.

“i created you!” exclamatory sentence higlights skillings hubris.

stage direction forshadowing hte fate of skilling.

“skilling climbs stairs like a man on his way to the gallows” skillings fate is sealed as a rejects any moment of anagnorisis.

skilling calling upon christ to help him

“jesus, no, stop. Oh God”

- apostrophe sees Skilling call upon christ as his stock prices tumble in a moment of peripitea.
-Juxtaposes with his previous atheism.

quot efrom skilling showing how he truley believes he is an inoncent man

“ill take a lie detector test right here right now”

-skilling remains committed to his philosophy, he is not a lying man, he truley believes in his philosophy

the final lines of skillling

“theres greed, there’s fear, joy, faith, hope… and the greatest of these is money” ]

-skilling rejects any moment of anagnorisis and continues to commit idolatry.

the final stage direction

“the sound of prison doors slamming”

skilling is punished in a moment of catharsis.

the american national anthem is mocked?

-start of act one scene one of 2010 version sees the mise en scene show the american national anthem play as the employees enter the stage.

-Either mocks America, or highlights how Enron is an american innovator.

stage direction which shows skillings willingness to sacrifice?

after skilling is offered the job of president, at the expense of roe

“as roes dreams are shattered, skillings dreams are made real”

theatre used to present skillings thoughts?

a “musical cacophony” of tading, and over time the voices join to make a “pure, singe note”

-Brechtian theatre to present extreme inner thoughts of Skilling

-”the empty beautiful purity in Skilling’s head is interrupted by the reality of the traders arrival”

machismo presented through risk?

“death weekends,” “someones gonna fuckin die”

-Brechtian theatre to highlight gaps between mindsets of the audience and the characters.

skillings views of nature?

“business is nature” - anarcho capitlaistic metaphor

"“money and sex motivate people” - embraces marlovian hedonism.

prebbles metaphor for ljm?

Prebble uses a metaphor of a “tiny, red glowing box” to represent LJM

-Skilling and Fastow worship it like a “ totem from an indiana jones film”

-connoations of satanism.

Skillings method of overreaching becomes something that will inevitabily destroy him?

raptors of LJM eventually take “corporeal form”

-like faustus who worships devils, skillings creations evenutlaly lead to his downfall.

stage direction represents skillings atheism?

While Ken Lay prays, Skilling “watches Lay not sure what to do”

-Lack of respect for tradition

-can also be seen as rebellious and pioneering.

prebble uses dramatic irony in the election scene?

Florida is called for Gore in Act 2 scene 5 - its a key swing state.

-Skilling loses his god like persona as he believes Gore “scares” him

-Prebble uses dramatic irony as the audience knows ENRON still collapsed despite the victory of bush.

prebble mocks bush?

stage direction shows footage of george .w. bush being sworn in as president

-satire, as while bush swears to protect the constitution, he allows Enron to exploit California. Like enron, Bush’s victory is superficial as he lost the popular vote.

-2010 version sues american natioanl anthem.

prebble highlights the impact of skillings evil?

Skilling’s security officer describes that he wants his daughter to “go to college” and “do something real”

-Prebble invokes pathos to highlight the impact of Enron.

skilling as a christ like figure?

as enrons stock market price is tumbling, skilling is “crucifying himself before the market” perhaps links to skilllings hubris, he believes he is dying for the sins of his collegues at enron.