Scene 2 Flashcards
quick sex
-ironic is it highlights the transactional business of nature
- similar to Fs desire for a wife and to have sex with Helen of Troy
“ [Skilling] “I was drunk when I told you that stuff”
An unwillingness to open up and show emotion in the business world
[Skilling] “I left. She left(italics). But I - left(italics)”
Skilling’s need to be in control
[Skilling] “I just don’t think this is the world I want to live in”
Very selfish thought. Focus on himself. Wanting to change the world - Hubris
“ people are fuking idiots”
“ when you get things quicker you start to resent people who don’t”
-skillling
-Academic snobbery
-He linked to Faustus
-“ a greater subject fitteth Faustus wit’’
“Study fits a mercenary drudge”
“ you’re a godless atheist” -roe
-similar to Fs who worships the devil rather than God
- “ no chief but beelzebub”
“ maybe every extraordinary thing that ever happened was conceived by a man alone in a room at four in the morning” - skilling
- has a very high opinion of himself
-“ swollen with cunning of a self conceit” - He’s overreaching at all times