Essays on Daedalus and Icarus

While many people are happy living their routine lives, there are still those who just desperately crave an escape from their daily lives. Edward Field demonstrates this idea in his poem Icarus. Field takes the myth of Daedalus and Icarus and puts a contemporary spin…

“Travel between the extremes.” This line from the story of Daedalus and Icarus, loosely translated from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, describes the lesson learned from the tragic story and its infamously tragic character, Icarus. It was exactly this that Icarus did not do; rather, he flew higher…

When Daedalus is Icarus and Icarus is Daedalus Alison Bechdel structures her graphic novel Fun Home with dense layers of literary and cultural allusions in an effort to understand and contextualize her relationships with members of her family and with the world in which she…