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Essay Plan - "Ideas about change" - Coggle Diagram
Essay Plan - "Ideas about change"
Argument 1
Citations
"Im not a bad man, I just wanted to change the world" Skilling set out with a good idea about what he wanted to do but allowed greed and hubris to consume him
“Try thy brains to gain a deity” Transformation of himself into a god Faustus doesn’t appreciate all the achievements he has made as a scholar as he is too focused on becoming powerful
“And the greatest of these… is money” ellipsis shows how skilling thought deeply about his answer and still prioritised money over his own family, workers, and company - he changed from an average business man to the epitome of capitalism
“I’ll burn my books.. Ah Mephistopheles!” Faustus changed from an average scholar to one of the most powerful men on earth and then back to a scholar who had no power against Lucifer.
Critics
'At the center is Skilling, who metamorphoses from a nerdy, socially challenged man with a plan into an oil-slick master of the universe' - Ben Brantley
"Faustus wishes to be the author of himself" - Garber
Connections
People change and make monsters about themselves and their worlds. Metamorphosis. Transformation from good to bad
Context
Renaissance - trasfortmation ad rebirth of new ideas
20,000 employees lost their jobs at the hands of a completely transformed compay that many of them had o say inn chaging.
Argument 2
Connections
Ideas about women do not change throughout 400 years
Citations
"Nan spit, then turn her and wind her to thy own use as often as thou wilt" pun for sex with multiple partners - there's no respect or emotional connection
"Skilling and Roe finish having quick, clothed sex" - stage direction shows that the sexual relations have no meaning behind them, its more transactional than emotional
"Ill cull thee out the fairest courtesans" violent verb "cull" could infer violence towards women and how they are only seen as objects
"Tits industries" "Skank of America" Puns show no respect for the women who are in the same position and job as them.
Critics
Riggs - "The scholar remains in the all-male world of academic humanism, where books take the place of women"
Clements "Throgh Fastow and Skilling.. Prebble reveals a set of assumptions about masculine superiority"
Context
Marlowes sister died in childbirth when she was 13.
Amanda martin (Claudia roe) said that working at enron was hard because it was "like a boys locker room"