Daedalus And Icarus Compare And Contrast

“Daedalus and Icarus” Essay
Sexton changes the original story of “Daedalus and Icarus” into a lighthearted story in which she doesn't care whether or not the son ,Icarus ,dies,because she focuses more on the surrounding landscape and not on the actual tragedy. The comparison in the stories has only one similarity which is that in the plot of both stories are the same ,but both authors vary on how they tell the story. Anne Sexton changes her version of “Daedalus and Icarus” into a lighthearted tale in which she doesn't focus on whether or not the son dies.

In the original story of “Daedalus and Icarus” the plot was the same as in Anne Sexton’s version ,but instead of focusing on other details the author of the original story focused more on

the actual tragedy and gave a backstory to why all off the events were happening. The author of the original gives suspense to the story having the reader on the edge of there seat thinking will Icarus take head to his fathers words or will he disobey them and fall to his death. Where as in Anne Sexton’s version ,” A Friend Who has Come to Triumph”, she doesn't use suspense as a way to get the reader intrigued in the story she uses Icarus’s care freeness and is rejoicing the fact that he is flying and doesn't really care whether or not Icarus dies. Also in the original story the author shows the boy dying as a tragedy in how he presents that flying is dangerous when you don’t listen. In Sexton’s version she repeatedly congratulates Icarus for trying to fly were as in the original he focuses primarily on how it is a bad thing to fly.
Even though both of the texts have a similar plot they also have tremendous differences . The two stories also have different points of view and they also have to different moods in which one is a lighthearted and the other one is very tragic. In all Anne Sexton changes the original story almost completely but still is able to revert to the subject in her own way using a different theme and mood.