Medea,1

The corus in Oedipus was a group of elders, they were wise and not socialy powerfull. They offered advice and guidence for the characters but also were used as a sort of on stage audiance. The point of this was that because they saw the play from the audiance's perspective the audiance would connect with them and relate. This way the author could use the corus' feelings and their acting to evoke certain emotions in the audiance. The finnal use for the Corus is a kind of restatement of what has happened in the play and then to provide some insightfull thoughts to the audiance about the events.

In Medea the corus is used in both similar and diffrent ways as it is in Oedipus. It is also used to review what happens throughout the play and provide insight poetically. However the corus is not a source of wisdom for the characters like in Oedipus. In Medea they are more importantlly characters which relate with the other characters. For example they are a corus of women and therefore Medea trusts them more than she trusts the men in her story. Finnaly like in Oedipus the corus is a group of characters in the play with which the audiance can relate and therfore a source of emotions and certain reactions to teh events taking place on stage.