This document contains the summarised key quotes from 'Enron' by Lucy Prebble for each of the main characters. The quotes are divided by scene and by character to make it easy to revise. There are some additional contextual and critical facts for the relevant characters as well. Characters covered ...
Jeffrey Skilling:
Act 1 Scene 1:
‘We are trying to change the world’ - overreacher, trying to become God-like.
‘Most powerful women? … I think one of her dogs was at number twelve’- Misogynistic,
sexist, sleazy and crude.
Act 1 Scene 2 :
‘I got things quicker. And when you get things quicker, you begin to resent people who
don’t.’- Hubris, conceited.
‘Like everyone’s viewpoint is valid. Well, it’s not.’
‘You are entirely irrelevant’- dismissive of human relationships. Detached from ethics and
morality.
Act 1 Scene 3:
‘I got plenty of ideas. Mark-to-market, energy trading, that's just the beginning.’- overreacher
and overwhelming belief on his own knowledge and powers.
‘Countries are meaningless’- companies superseding countries, warped sense of reality,
morals and priorities.
Act 1 Scene 4:
A trader says , ‘He says, “ Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win” - Link to
Faustus who is willing to give up his soul for omnipotence and doesn’t fear the repercussions
(‘This word damnation terrifies not him’)
Act 1 Scene 5:
‘Money and sex motivate people’ - lack of moral compass, can be read from both a marxist
and psychoanalytic perspective.
(Fastow: That we’re just animals?) ‘No. We’re more.’- His misunderstanding of Richard
Dawkins’ book ‘The selfish genes’ he believes justifies his personal superiority because he
interpreted the book to be giving evidence for human superiority.
‘Never apologise, Andy.’- Link to Faustus who never repents for his sins.
Act 1 Scene 6:
Stage Directions: ‘Skillings daughter appears… not close to him’
‘His daughter fades into dark’ - shows how his detachment from human relationships and
obsession with wealth and power leads to his forgetting his family, the only permanent thing
in his life.
Act 1 Scene 7:
‘If someone’s prepared to pay that for us then / that’s what we’re worth!’
Act 1 Scene 8:
‘You want to know what I was doing when my daughter was born?(...) I was on the phone
from the hospital negotiating my deal, To come work here.’
‘I don’t mind taking losses. But I can’t report taking losses right now.’
, ‘Skilling puts his arm around the new protege’
Act 1 Scene 9:
‘Dynamic CEO changing the world’
‘Make him look impressive, god-like’
‘We’re changing business, we’re changing people’s lives, we’re changing the world’.
‘Skilling is messiah-like’
Act 2 Scene 1:
‘Everything upstairs is bullshit compared to this’
‘She thinks her balls are cut off, what about my balls?’
‘Ken’s gotta accept it’s my show!’
Act 2 Scene 3:
‘Doesn’t matter how you win- as long as you win!’
‘It’s important because I want people to like me.’
Act 2 Scene 6:
‘I’m setting you free in California, fellas
‘We are on the side of angels’
Act 2 Scene 7:
‘Who do you think is gonna win in the end?! The greedy or the inept?!’
‘I want you to represent me, not the company. I didn’t kill anyone’
‘That’s a perception problem’
‘We didn’t do anything illegal in California’
‘Very Enron though? Trading in weather?’
‘I personally think that’s unethical’
Act 2 Scene 8:
‘I created you!’
‘Andy , I love you. And I would do anything for you.’
Act 2 Scene 9:
‘I’m fine. I’m Jeff Skilling.’
‘IT’S ME! Everything will be fine, don’t be idiotic’
A spotlight on Skilling alone, unsupported,
His arms outstretched, crucifying himself before the market.
Act 2 Scene 10:
‘A company like this, it consumes your life. I’ve neglected my daughter’
‘I can’t sleep’
Act 3 Scene 3:
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