Icarus

§ Greek mythology § Icarus was the son of Daedalus. Daedalus was an inventor that was put in-along with his son- jail by King Minos of Crete to punish Daedalus for helping the hero Theseus to kill the monster called the Minotaur and to escape with Minos' daughter, Ariadne. They both knew that the prison was heavely guarded by land and water, sky, not as much. Daedalus studied the way that the birds flew above the prison, he studied their wings, studied their feathers, studied the “curves of birds' wings”. He used wax and string to fasten the fallen bird feathers together. Icarus’s father told him not to fly too high or too low: too high would melt the wax hlding the wings together, too low would dampen the feathers. When the two escaped the prison Icarus forgot the warnings his father had given him; he flew higher and higher, the wax of the artificial wings melting. The feathers started to fall apart, falling to the sea, Icarus following. He plummeted into the sea to his death. § Significance: This is showing that when you don’t listen and follow what you are told, no good will come to you. You are destine to fail and “crash”.
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