Faustus/ skilling Flashcards
What does skilling say to portray sympathy because some could admire their ambitions
“I’m not a bad man i’m not …
Sympathy
…. an unusual man. I just want to change the world”
inclusive pronoun
collusive tone
attracts the audience to his enthusiasm
What is skilling and Fastow sentenced to at the end of the play?
Skilling- “twenty four years and four months in prison”
Fastow- 6 years
“What art thou Faustus….
Sympathy
….but a man compared to die?”
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
‘I’ll burn my books’.
simplistic phrase
“Books” represent both the highest and lowest points in Faustus’ life
What does Faustus state going against religion?
What is it and whats its effect?
“Hell is a fable”
emphatic blasphemy phrase
modernist opinion on the bible and heaven and hell
What does Faustus say to reflect his courage?
“So now the blood begins to clear again:”
What does Faustus say reflecting his knowledge?
What tale and myth is it?
How is it parallel?
“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
What does faustus say that reflects his arrogance?
“Settle thy studies, Faustus”
What quote suggests Faustus’s convoluted logic?
What type of phrase is it?
“Necromantic books are heavenly”
Oxymoronic phrase
What does Faustus say that is mocking of hell?
Whats its function?(3)
Mocking, non sympathetic
“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.
F CONTEXT:
How does the quotation “Necromantic books are heavenly” effect the Jacobean audience
Theatre in this era was highly censored
What is Faustus?
A three dimensional promethean over reacher
F CRITIC
What does Deats say about Faustus causing us to feel sympathy for him?
What quote does it link to?
“Harrowing demi mont”
“See his limbs torn asunder”
“Fearful shrieks and cries”
F CRITIC
What does Suntayane say that the play Faustus is?
“Satanic tragedy”
F CONTEXT
Is Faustus a morality play and why?
Yes because he is an “everyman”
F CONTEXT
What is Marlowe?
Atheist
F CONTEXT
What would the female audience feel about Faustus?
Female audience would identify with faustus because of interrogation of authority
What does skilling say in the prologue?
Whats its function?(3)
“We’re trying to change the world”
inclusive pronoun
collusive tone
attracts the audience to his enthusiasm
E CONTEXT/CRITIC
What does Lucy prebble say about enron?
“I think the audience will be shocked by the hubris that was Enron”
E CRITIC
What does Samuel west say about playing skilling in 2009?
“it is difficult to evade the charisma …
…of the protagonist and the seductive nature of his vision”
E CONTEXT
What type of writer is Lucy Prebble?
Naughties
E CONTEXT
HOw many employees lost their jobs?
20,000
What 2 quotes at the very end of each play highlight their damnations?
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’
Is faustus an morality play and why?
IS enron a morality play and why?
Faustus= Yes because he is an "everyman" Enron= no because not everyone in society experiences the corruptness of enron
What do both Faustus and Skilling have in common?
What quotes link to this
“Necromantic….
“We are trying ….
They both want to ascend the chain of being by using hubristic language
Faustus: …books are heavenly”
Skilling: …to change the world”
What are both the plays called?
What do they highlight?
Cautionary tales
Political social and religious critiques of society
What are both protagonists (Skilling and faustus) called?
Promethean over reachers
CONTEXT
What do both plays allude to?
Greek style
F CONTEXT
What does Faustus reflect?
Religious political and climate prevalent in Jacobean England
What does Enron reflect?
Large economic scandal in American history
F CRITIC
What did Satayne call faustus?
“Satanic tragedy”
What did Deats calls him faustus “harrowing …
What quotation links to it when going through the mouth of hell?
Sympathise
demi mont”
“Limbs get taun asunder”
E CRITIC
What does Carol pritchard say about enron?
Uses the form of a greed tragedy
