Medea

Medea

The gods are invoked sparingly in Medea, yet the chorus concludes the play by saying Zeus brings things to “surprising ends” and makes the unexpected possible. Can the action of the play be entirely accounted for by the self-conscious decisions made by the characters, or do there seem to be some uncanny, fated elements of the story?

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This is only a short answer space. Although the play lacks devine involvement as other plays, I think that there is more than enough to say that Medea is a pawn of the Gods. Medea will have been assisted by the goddess Hecate in the creation of the clothing that destroys Creon's daughter. By the end of the play, she iassisted by the gods with the use of the chariot of the sun god Helios to escape from Corinth. Mera uses Medea to destroy Pelias.

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