5. What Is the Protagonist’s Dramatic Action?
We arrived at an answer to this question by a roundabout way. Because
Daedalus is a doer, not a dreamer, a desire to escape prison with his son
would serve him as a strong dramatic action. We could simply have made
Icarus’s dramatic action complementary—to escape prison with his father—
but it might be more dramatic to follow through on our perception of him as
a dreamer, very different from his father. This difference would exacerbate
the natural tension between father and adolescent son.
For when we go back to the original material, hunting clues to the father’s
character, we are reminded that Daedalus killed his nephew—and favorite
pupil!—out of fear that the boy might surpass him as an architect. Such a
man would probably be an irascible, competitive parent.
Thus, it makes sense that, in answer to Question 5, Icarus’s dramatic
action is to escape his father any way he can.
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