External forces have an effect on human failure which is shown through the wax on the wings melting. Daedalus constructed the wings using wax to attach the feathers. Before they leave he tells Icarus, “If they soar too high the sun may scorch them. Fly midway. Gaze not at the endless sky” (Ovid 321-321). Daedalus tells Icarus that the sun will burn and melt his wings if he flies to high which he will do. Icarus is advised not to stare at the endless sky, for if he he does he will lose sight of his destination and the ultimate goal. The external force of the sky causes him to get lose himself in the endlessness of the sky. The sun is the external force which causes the wax on the wings to melt, so it was not Icarus’s own failure. The wings were
