Themes Flashcards
‘Everyone standing around celebrating their own ignorance… I’m the reason you’re here’
Skilling’s messiah complex- hubris (A1 S1)
‘If you’re gonna be a high school girl about it’
Roe’s internalised misogyny (A1 S3)
‘I’m sorry i thought i was the only woman in the room’
Roe’s internalised misogyny and belittling herself- emasculating (A1 S3)
‘We should be coming up with new ideas. About everything’
Skilling’s ambition for power and knowledge + freeing self from old ideas (A1 S3)
‘You’ve drunk the Kool-Aid’
Trader 3 referring to the Jamestown massacre symbolising irony of blind manipulative following (A1 S4)
‘Only those who are prepared to lose are ever gonna win’
Trader 4 (Lay) displaying toxic masculinity (perhaps machismo) and endangering risk taking (A1 S4)
‘Closest thing to sex. For a man that is’
Trader 1 symbolising the different a attitudes of sex from males to females. Emphasising patriarchy (women don’t always enjoy) (A1 S4)
‘I got this company running on Darwinian principles’
Skilling on stripping the person back to primal survival- feels peak capitalistic-no individualism (A1 S5)
‘Money and sex motivate people’
Skilling on peak capitalism, exploitation of those who need to survive (A1 S5)
‘Never apologise Andy’
Skillling on machismo (A1 S5)
‘I like guys with spikes’
Skilling and his toxic masculinity (A1 S5)
‘Tits Industries’
Roe on what others call her department. Built in misogyny, sexism, toxic masculinity (A1 S7)
‘Raptors’ ‘As in Jurassic Park’
Allegory for excess, science and greed. The over ambition and persuit of knowledge (A1 S8)
‘He’s mine. All these ideas are mine!’
Skillings machiavellianism. Possession and ownership. Only takes responsibility when its all going well (A1 S9)
‘Any deceit is deceit’
Lay on double standards, likely underlying sexism (A2 S2)
