Question

What are the key similarities between Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream? Both works are a depiction of the difficulties of everyday life.
Both works are a celebration of human life and spirituality.
Both works show the artists’ struggle with the concept of the afterlife.
Both works show emotional challenges that humans face.
Both works show human dependency on material needs.

Answer 1

Both works show the artists' struggle with the concept of the afterlife. Leo Tolstoy is a writer, a great man in literature. On the other hand, Edvard Munch is world renowned painter of The Scream. Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich talks about the primacy and elision of death, the consequences of living without meaning, without abiding to true connection of one's life.