Maša Pelko's contemporary Slovenian play Royal Children and Ljubomir Djurković's contemporary Montenegrin play Teirezia's Lie are linked by their adaptation of Sophocles' myths of King Oedipus and Antigone. Using different dramatic perspectives and focusing on different points of view – children's and adults' – they thematise the issues of domination, egoism, desire for power, love, respect for law and family, values, justice, and injustice, which are common to all covered works. In my thesis, I try to explore the connection and dependence between two themes and how the chosen perspective influences the presentation and the reader's understanding of the chosen theme. I achieved that through comparing their perspectives, searching for intertextual connections, and analysing the character of the addressed topic. I discovered that the chosen perspective influences the presentation and the reader's understanding of the chosen subject matter, as it is the vehicle through which the dramatic characters and their characteristics are established. Based on the alienation and naivety of the children's point of view, the children's perspective introduces subjectivity into the play, but it does not imply a real diminution of the importance of the chosen theme or the inferiority of the children's perspective to the adults'.
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