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Morality and Responsibility in the "Non-Irish" Works of Martin McDonagh
Doleček, Jan ; Pilný, Ondřej (advisor) ; Wallace, Clare (referee)
Martin McDonagh is considered to be one of the chief contemporary Irish-British playwrights, who also became an accomplished and universally acclaimed screenwriter and director of films. This BA thesis aims to explore the ethical side of his work, focusing on the "non-Irish" plays and films: namely on the plays The Pillowman (2003), Behanding in Spokane (2010) and Hangmen (2015) and on the films In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). In all of the aforementioned, McDonagh focuses on diverse ethical issues such as responsibility, justice, violence, racial prejudice, redemption and other themes. The way McDonagh approaches these ethical issues is mainly through his masterfully crafted characters. Most of them have distinguishable individual moralities or moral codes and it is therefore chiefly the analysis of these characters that provides comment on ethics. Given the subjectivism expressed in the work, it becomes apparent that McDonagh's oeuvre inclines toward moral relativism, although McDonagh himself rejects ascribing to any established theory (this suggest rather a post-modern approach to ethics). Another important aspect that is also be discussed in the thesis is McDonagh's implicit challenging the audience/reader, who are encouraged to...
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