E&F Themes and Symbol Links Flashcards
Presentation of sexuality / female characters
Enron
“Skilling and Roe finish having clothed, quick sex” p10
[His daughter fades into the dark] p35
“Clever girls” Fastow to Raptors p58
Faustus
“Her lips sucks forth my soul. See where it flies!” p103
“turn her and wind her to thine own use as often as thou wilt” Nan Spit p47
Power and knowledge
Enron
“Jeffrey ‘mark-to-market’ Skilling” p6
[the most powerful man in the room, Ken Lay]
“I’m fucking smart.” p30
Faustus
“and glutted more with learning’s golden gifts” p3
“try thy brains to gain a deity” p7
“necromantic books are heavenly” p7
Machismo
Enron
“One of Skilling’s death weekends, man!” p23
“Burn, baby burn”
“Loopholes so big you could fuck a fat chick through ‘em” p76
Faustus
“Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude”
“Yet art thout still but Faustus, and a man”
“wounding myself when I had nobody to fight withal”
Risk-taking
Enron
“I’ve been thinking of taking Enron into weather” p83
“Risk is life, basically” p42
“Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win” p23
Faustus
“come, I think hell’s a fable”
“his waxen wings did mount above his reach”
“Then thou must be damned perpetually”
Perception and Reality
Enron
[Skilling turns his Daughter but she has disappeared, leaving only bubbles in her wake] p70
“the bubbles’ gonna burst folks” p36
Faustus
“I’faith, he looks much like a conjurer”
“Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee?”
“O, might I see hell and return again, how happy I would be”
Hubris
Enron
“I created you” p87
Analyst quartet “To see it you make a killing!/ Skilling, Skilling” p79
“We’re trying to change the world” p1 Prologue
Faustus
“swoll’n with the cunning of a self-conciet”
“learn thou of manly fortitude”
“His waxen wings did mount above his reach”
Greed
Enron
“And the greatest of these… is Money” p114
“I have to check the stock price”…” Because that’s how Daddy knows how much he is worth” p68
[The gold glints somewhere in the audience] p20
Faustus
“Letting him live in all voluptuousness”
“The iterating of these lines brings gold”
“Ransack the ocean for orient pearl”
Overreaching
Enron
“Doesn’t matter how you win, as long as you win.” p67
“I got plenty of ideas” p18
“Ken’s gotta accept it’s my show” p63
Faustus
“His waxen wings did mount above his reach” p3
“To practise more than heavenly power permits”
“A sound magician is a mighty God”
Cruelty
Enron
“Burn, baby, burn!” p77
[hurtling the younger man from his treadmill] p30
“Well that’s your fucking job, ain’t it?” p73
Faustus
“Curst be the parents that engendered me!”
“Thou art too ugly to attend on me”
“O my leg, my leg!”
Good VS Evil
Enron
“We are the good guys in California. We are on the side of the angels.” p77
“The accountants and lawyers are OK with it if you’re OK with it, Ken” p52
[the tiny red box glows red and throbs]
Faustus
“necromantic books are heavenly”
“pray devoutly to the prince of hell”
“That holy shape becomes a devil best”
