Medea Journal 3

In the play Medea doesn't actually speak out to the gods in a manner that expects a reply, but more in a rhetoric sense, using them as an invisible audience so that she may voice her opinions aloud but not break the sacred 4th wall in theatre much like the chorus. Jason, a glorious and proud hero of high reputation, speaks in a manner that implies he is speaking in a literal sense to them. When he asks the gods to curse Medea for the deaths of her young children, he says it in a way that seems like he, on the other hand, expects some reply or results from his wish. This may have to do with gender roles, where the man can have audience with gods but she cannot, or it may simply have to do with the best functioning purpose of the character, Medea the loner in need of someone to voice her muderous thoughts aloud, and Jason someone to curse to. Medea uses the gods as an audience to speak to, and Jason uses them to express his unbridled hatred of Medea.