In playwriting and fiction, we call it deus ex machina – literally, the “god out of the machine” – which has come to mean a miraculously happy or fortuitous ending to a long and agonizing drama.
Guilty both of murder and infanticide, Medea seems hopeless and bound for damnation – until a machine, actually a crane shaped like a chariot drawn by dragons, emerges from behind the stage.
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