How are Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Ovid's "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" similar?A.Both show Daedalus trying to save his son from drowning.B.Both show Icarus drowning after the wax holding his wings together has melted.C.Both show many people who notice Icarus descend into the water.D.Both focus on the triumph of flight over t
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How are Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Ovid's "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" similar?A.Both show Daedalus trying to save his son from drowning.B.Both show Icarus drowning after the wax holding his wings together has melted.C.Both show many people who notice Icarus descend into the water.D.Both focus on the triumph of flight over t
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The similarity between Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Ovid's "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" lies in option B. Both show Icarus drowning after the wax holding his wings together has melted.
In Brueghel's painting, Icarus is depicted as a pair of flailing legs in the sea, indicating that his wings have failed him and he is drowning. Similarly, in Ovid's story, Icarus ignores his father's warnings, flies too close to the sun, the wax in his wings melts, and he falls into the sea and drowns.
Neither of them show Daedalus trying to save his son from drowning (option A), or many people noticing Icarus descend into the water (option C). Also, neither of them focus on the triumph of flight over tragedy (option D), but rather they both highlight the tragic consequences of Icarus' hubris and disobedience.
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