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Medea As an evil woman myself, I could fully understand this play. (Just a bit of a joke there.) Throughout the many plays that came before Medea, the themes dealt with prophecies or the gods. Media took a step beyond the simple, almost always predicted plots and brought the audience a new way to look at a story. Media was presented as a psychological play in a few ways. It brought in more dialogue, showed …

…beyond our judgment. What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not god contrives. And so it happens in this story.” (Medea, p. 672) And one can conclude that the gods work in mysterious ways. In every aspect Euripides makes this play different from the others before it. Through dialogue, complexity of characters and through his ending he shows the audience that his characters conceive of these plots themselves and not through the gods.