In this myth, the anagnorisis occurs when the Icarus finally understands that the warning his father gave him was true. Excited by the new power of flight, Icarus disregards Daedalus’s advice and climbs toward the sun; the wax of his wings softens, and the feathers slip out of place.
The peripeteia occurs when Icarus dies. Because he flies too close to the sun, his wings come off, and he falls from the sky to his death. It is the reversal of the story because the wings his father made to save him become the thing that kills him.
The pathos occurs when Daedalus mourns his son’s death. The reader feels pity for the father, who loses his son because of the wings he made for Icarus.
The agents are Daedalus, the architect who built the Labyrinth, and his young son Icarus.
The time is after Daedalus built the Labyrinth, when he lost favor with King Minos and was locked in a tower.
The place is the island of Crete in the kingdom of Minos. First the prison tower, and then the sky.
The cause is the desire to escape the tower and be free. Daedalus has lost favor with King Minos, who keeps him and his son locked up and will never let them leave Crete. Daedalus is far from his homeland and longs to go back, and he does not want to let Icarus grow up in a prison.
The manner is the making of wings. Daedalus gathers feathers one by one as the wind blows them to him, arranges them in order from smallest to largest, and fastens them together with thread and wax. In this way he creates wings that the two of them can fly with.
The action is the flight from the tower. Because King Minos controls the land and the sea, the sky is the only way out, so Daedalus and Icarus leap from the tower and fly over the water. But when Icarus climbs too close to the sun, his wings come apart and he falls into the sea.