Thanks for reading The Classical Corner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. There is no more hackneyed symbol of modernity’s spiritual angst than Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” With various modifications, the painting is typically taken to represent the sense of unsettlement and dread that seems to accompany life in the modern world. In one such interpretation, the scream expresses the revulsion that arises when the mythology of the traditional conception of man as the “rational animal” is stripped away and the brutal facticity of man’s beastly nature confronts us for the first time. The scream cries out from the heart of man when he first encounters the barrenness therein.
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath
Thanks for reading The Classical Corner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. There is no more hackneyed symbol of modernity’s spiritual angst than Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” With various modifications, the painting is typically taken to represent the sense of unsettlement and dread that seems to accompany life in the modern world. In one such interpretation, the scream expresses the revulsion that arises when the mythology of the traditional conception of man as the “rational animal” is stripped away and the brutal facticity of man’s beastly nature confronts us for the first time. The scream cries out from the heart of man when he first encounters the barrenness therein.