ДРАМАТИЗАЦИЈА ПРОБЛЕМА МОРАЛНОГ ИЗБОРА У ДЕЛИМА СТИВА ТЕШИЋА
Dramatization of a problem of moral choice in the works of Steve Tesic

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the dramatic opus of Stojan Steve Tesich’s later plays Speed of Darkness, Square One, On the Open Road and Art & Leisure, which are part of his “Moral Tetralogy”. The problem of moral choice the protagonists are faced with is being analysed in those plays. Apart from the problem of moral choice, the main themes discussed in the plays are the theme of Vietnam War and its consequences, the influence of media on life and its manipulating power, the question of freedom and art. The purpose of the essay is to emphasize the problems of contemporary society Tesich deals with and to show the path of moral growth his protagonists are following in order to solve them. What is important is the fact that all plays are universal, because they do not only refer to the protagonists of the plays which are Americans and to their country America, where Tesich spent his whole life after the emigration from Serbia with his family, but it also refers to the whole universe and to every man. Tesich offers the solution in his plays and he strives to wake up the human consciousness about the existence of an alternative, although a lot of things have already been lost.

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