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Faustus/ skilling Flashcards

1
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What does skilling say to portray sympathy because some could admire their ambitions
“I’m not a bad man i’m not …

Sympathy

A

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

inclusive pronoun
collusive tone
attracts the audience to his enthusiasm

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

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

Fastow- 6 years

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“What art thou Faustus….

Sympathy

A

….but a man compared to die?”

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What is Faustus’s very last words, in his final soliloquy, before he gets taken by Mephistopheles?
What is the emphasis of this?(2)

Sympathy

A

‘I’ll burn my books’.
simplistic phrase
“Books” represent both the highest and lowest points in Faustus’ life

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What does Faustus state going against religion?

What is it and whats its effect?

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“Hell is a fable”
emphatic blasphemy phrase
modernist opinion on the bible and heaven and hell

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What does Faustus say to reflect his courage?

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“So now the blood begins to clear again:”

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What does Faustus say reflecting his knowledge?
What tale and myth is it?
How is it parallel?

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“His waxen wings”

cautionary tale of the icarus myth
parallel to Faustus and icarus as they are tring to clim the chain of being by using hubristic language

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What does faustus say that reflects his arrogance?

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“Settle thy studies, Faustus”

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What quote suggests Faustus’s convoluted logic?

What type of phrase is it?

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“Necromantic books are heavenly”

Oxymoronic phrase

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What does Faustus say that is mocking of hell?
Whats its function?(3)

Mocking, non sympathetic

A

“Bell, book, and candle; candle, book, and bell”
doesn’t fit iambic pentameter
there is one too many syllables.
mocking tone ironic as Faustus later is banished to hell.

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F CONTEXT:

How does the quotation “Necromantic books are heavenly” effect the Jacobean audience

A

Theatre in this era was highly censored

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What is Faustus?

A

A three dimensional promethean over reacher

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F CRITIC
What does Deats say about Faustus causing us to feel sympathy for him?

What quote does it link to?

A

“Harrowing demi mont”

“See his limbs torn asunder”
“Fearful shrieks and cries”

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F CRITIC

What does Suntayane say that the play Faustus is?

A

“Satanic tragedy”

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F CONTEXT

Is Faustus a morality play and why?

A

Yes because he is an “everyman”

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F CONTEXT

What is Marlowe?

A

Atheist

17
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F CONTEXT

What would the female audience feel about Faustus?

A

Female audience would identify with faustus because of interrogation of authority

18
Q

What does skilling say in the prologue?

Whats its function?(3)

A

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

19
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E CONTEXT/CRITIC

What does Lucy prebble say about enron?

A

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

20
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E CRITIC
What does Samuel west say about playing skilling in 2009?
“it is difficult to evade the charisma …

A

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

21
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E CONTEXT

What type of writer is Lucy Prebble?

A

Naughties

22
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E CONTEXT

HOw many employees lost their jobs?

A

20,000

23
Q

What 2 quotes at the very end of each play highlight their damnations?

A

F: “Her lips suck forth my soul” - Violent sibilant phrase - erotic image but reinforces that the devil has taken his soul

E: ‘I just wanted to change the world’

24
Q

Is faustus an morality play and why?

IS enron a morality play and why?

A 
Faustus= Yes because he is an "everyman"
Enron= no because not everyone in society experiences the corruptness of enron
25
Q

What do both Faustus and Skilling have in common?
What quotes link to this
“Necromantic….
“We are trying ….

A

They both want to ascend the chain of being by using hubristic language
Faustus: …books are heavenly”
Skilling: …to change the world”

26
Q

What are both the plays called?

What do they highlight?

A

Cautionary tales

Political social and religious critiques of society

27
Q

What are both protagonists (Skilling and faustus) called?

A

Promethean over reachers

28
Q

CONTEXT

What do both plays allude to?

A

Greek style

29
Q

F CONTEXT

What does Faustus reflect?

A

Religious political and climate prevalent in Jacobean England

30
Q

What does Enron reflect?

A

Large economic scandal in American history

31
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F CRITIC

What did Satayne call faustus?

A

“Satanic tragedy”

32
Q

What did Deats calls him faustus “harrowing …
What quotation links to it when going through the mouth of hell?

Sympathise

A

demi mont”

“Limbs get taun asunder”

33
Q

E CRITIC

What does Carol pritchard say about enron?

A

Uses the form of a greed tragedy

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