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:
