Friday, January 16, 2009

What is it about “The Fall of Icarus”?


ICARUS, he is not just a boy who started to fly with artificial wings resembling a bird attached to him with wax. And the story is not just about Icarus falling from the sky and drowning after having his wax melted by flying near the sun. Icarus represents FREEDOM, FREE SPIRIT and ROMANTIC SPIRIT.

Look at the painting and you might just see what I saw at first; a boy drowning with one of his leg still on the surface of the water. But that is not actually what the whole painting is about. Think big and look at the whole picture. You will realise that nobody is bothered or realises what’s going on around then. Someone just fell from the sky and nobody even cares. Well all I can say is take the risk and pay the price if something goes wrong or just hang about to your boring and dull lifestyle which is risk free.


Reading Mahabharata which I thought that I have to read between the tines turned out to be just straightforward story of a son sacrificing for his father. Was it sacrifice or for love? I am still thinkingJ

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