Answer: The key similarities between "the death of Ivan llyich and "painting the screem" is that: both works show the artists' struggle with the concept of the afterlife.
Leo Tolstoy, a writer, is a great man in literature while Edvard Munch is a world renowned painter of "The Scream".
Tolstoy's work of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" shows the primacy and elision of death, the consequences of living without meaning and without abiding to true connection of one's life.
Another similarity between Edvard and Tolstoy is their expression on human dependency on material needs. As a relation to Tolstoy's work, Edvard Munch work demonstrates the dependency of humans on their mateiral needs.
