"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" essay

In "Landscape with that Fall of Icarus", Willaim Carlos Williams suggests that everything has its place or purpose in life. This is true because if your a farmer, then in life you will plough, grow, crop, ect. If your a shephard then in life you will watch sheep. If your purpose was to die young, then that was your destiny.

The "The story of Daedales and Icarus" Ovid, suggests that the higher you get in life can easily be shot down in one instint. For example when Icarus flew too high the wax that was keeping his feathers on melted and he fell and died. Another example is Daedales finally getting off the island and which doing this he lost his son. The reason why both of these events occured is because Daedales went passed the laws of nature.

In the painting  "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Bruegel showed the viewers the scene of Icarus's death. The the painting the viewer can see that there are four people. One which is the farmer ploughing his land. Another being the shephard looking up at the sky. Another being a fisherman catching fish. Also another being Icarus drowning. The farmer represents what he should be doing instead of looking at Icarus dieing because being a farmer is his job. The shephard is looking up in the sky thinking, most likely about breaking the laws of nature. The fisherman shows that he also is doing his purpose in life, just like the farmer. This shows that most humans are selfish.

In the poem "Landscape with that Fall of Icarus", Willaim Carlos Williams, describes the scene of which Icarus dies. Along with Ovid and Bruegel, he mentions that the farmer is ploughing his field. H does this because that is the farmer's purpose in life. The reason why no one noticed Icarus dieing is because they are too selfish and only worried about themselves. Also they most likely believed that Icarus's death was his purpose in life, in other words his life purpose was to end his own life.

Williams, Bruegel, and Ovid all have something in common, all there pieces of work revolve around the theme that in life everything has its place or purpose. By noticing this the reader can find the selfishness of the characters in all three pieces of work.