Through the analysis of Drago Jančar's plays, the thesis explores the characters' reactions to the oppression or deprivation of freedom and free choice in totalitarian, repressive systems. Jančar's dramatic work is characterised by the genre of Theatre of the absurd, which aims to establish a critique of the totalitarian system through its grotesque structure and form. An analysis of the plays Disident Arnož in njegovi, Veliki briljantni valček, Dedalus, Zalezujoč Godota and Halštat shows an obvious trend in Jančar's plays, where the space of the action is gradually reduced, and the freedom of the individual is also increasingly restricted. The protagonists are placed in various situations, mostly grotesquely coloured, in which they represent Jančar's eternal dilemma - the individual, the individual against total power and its mechanisms.
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