Enron

Question 1

What does skilling say to portray sympathy because some could admire their ambitions
“I’m not a bad man i’m not …

Answer 1

…. an unusual man. I just want to change the world”

Question 2

What does an Enron Lawyer say at the very start mocking society and lying to the audience about the truth?

Answer 2

“Sell it to you as the truth”

Question 3

What does Ken Lay say to skilling that portrays how his authority/ wealth has gone to his head?
“Once you bury a dead dog…

Answer 3

… you don’t dig it up to smell it/ Now which goddam pattern”

Question 4

What is initiated in the very beginning prologue?

What is its function? (3)

Answer 4

“The have the heads of mice”
Childish
foreshadowing something bad is going to happen
hubristic

Question 5

What does Fastow say implying he cares about his own image?

Answer 5

“I want people to like me”

Question 6

What stage direction implies the raptors
Two have grown very bold now…
One of them is …

Answer 6

…fast and aggressive

…weak and sickly

Question 7

What do the raptors do?

Answer 7

depict the health and vitality of the company on stage as the crisis deepens

Question 8

What does skilling say in the prologue?

Whats its function?(3)

Answer 8

“We’re trying to change the world”
inclusive pronoun
collusive tone
attracts the audience to his enthusiasm

Question 9

What is skilling and Fastow sentenced to at the end of the play?

Answer 9

Skilling- “twenty four years and four months in prison”

Fastow- 6 years

Question 10

What quotation references the red box?

Explain…

Answer 10

“Box glows red and throbs”
red closely associated with hell
throbs = heart therefore hell is at the heart of the company

Question 11

What do Enron’s staff say when being at the staff party at the beginning of the play?
Whats the effect of this?

Answer 11

depicts the limiting power within the play

Question 12

CRITIC

Due to the quotation “We only came for champagne” what did a critic Billington say about this?

Answer 12

“greed stems from the worship of money”

Question 13

CRITIC
What does Prebble say about the whole play of Enron?

Spectacle

Answer 13

“Business is an illusion”

Question 14

CONTEXT
What does Ken lay say that highlights his financial status blinding him and parallels to the quote “Once you bury a dead dog…” ?
I believed that the balance sheet …

Answer 14

… was fundamentally strong. … I believed that then, I believe that now.”

Question 15

CONTEXT/CRITIC

What does Lucy prebble say about enron?

Answer 15

“I think the audience will be shocked by the hubris that was Enron”

Question 16

CRITIC
What does Samuel west say about playing skilling in 2009?
“it is difficult to evade the charisma …

Answer 16

…of the protagonist and the seductive nature of his vision”

Question 17

CONTEXT

Who was really close to ken lay?(2)

Answer 17

Bush was so close to Ken Lay

he called him “Kenny Boy.”

Question 18

CONTEXT

What did Andy Fastow say about Enron?

Answer 18

“I did many things I regret”

Question 19

CONTEXT

What type of writer is Lucy Prebble?

Answer 19

Naughties

Question 20

CONTEXT

When was the Enron scandal?

Answer 20

90s

Question 21

CONTEXT

What is Enrons own corporate state values?

Answer 21

“We treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves”

Question 22

CONTEXT

HOw many employees lost their jobs?

Answer 22

20,000

Question 23

CONTEXT

Skilling got 13 more years in prison than..?

Answer 23

Al Capone

Question 24

What were shadow companys represented as?
And what were the shadow companys for?

Spectacle

Answer 24

Raptors

Consume debt

Question 25

What was used to create spectacle in enron?

Answer 25

“Three men in suits appear on stage… with heads of mice”

“These are the raptors”