The fall of Icarus.

I fell asleep when I read the text for the first time. It all seemed so confusing. Then i realized that the extract given in our texts was not a complete version. I was supposed to start reading somewhere in the middle when it started with Icarus's father trying to find a way back to their country and suddenly it all made sense. I believed that the proverb, "Curiosity kills the cat" can be applied as one of the moral lessons in this text. Icarus was warned by his father to fly in the midway as the heat from the sun might melt the wax of his wings. He obeyed his father's instruction at the beginning of their flying journey but he became more adventurous and went against his father's words as he wanted to fly higher like the birds. Due to that, the wax on his wings melted by the heat of the sun and caused him to fell from the sky and drowned. In a way, he represented a sense of freedom, Romantic spirit, aspiration and individualism as told by Dr.Edwin. This was proven when he tried to do something that he felt right and different from others. During the lesson, Dr Edwin asked us to bring a picture and a poem of the "The fall of Icarus", there were a various different pictures and poems. I managed to get the right picture but the wrong poem.
It was true that pictures said a thousand words. From the picture, we can see that there was a boy drowning with one of his leg still on the surface of the water. However, as a whole picture, we can see that the other characters in the pictures were not aware of what was going on around them. They were just continued doing their routine jobs as a farmer and fisherman. Well, what i can say from this picture was in life there were two choices one can make, they can either take the risks in doing something different and accept the consequences or choose a monotonous lifestyle where everything will always be the same and risk free. I was rather curious to see the expression of Icarus's father seeing the fall of his son but it was not shown in the picture. Too bad..