The Scream- Edvard Munch

23rd January 2015
We have been given the brief to look at Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' a piece that is containing plenty of connotations that are interpreted differently by each viewer. We were told to produce a piece of creative writing that describes the scene that transpires in this painting in connection to existentialism.
For me, I personally wanted to produce a descriptive writing within the scene, being one of the dark figures in the background watching the screaming figure.
I decided to adapt this to being a screaming person that has in fact stared into the deep truth of existence and is in agony of the truth that has been seen and the desperate hunger for understanding.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this task, and intend to adopt this idea of perspective in future work.

100 words
A sonic screech scraped at my very soul that amplified around the pool of despair around me. Below the rim of my crinkled brow a woman crouches, her eardrums plagued with vicious whisper; a brutal hive of wonder blistering through her brain. Her ears clamped by her brittle hands trying to claw back her humanity. She had gazed too far into the depth below us, the truth that cannot be seen by her dangled in desperation.
The world around her stripped away in torturous tremor, her knees crumbled under the weight of the shadows as she lay crumpled, a sack of bones against a disobedient tide.

50 words
A sonic screech scraped at my very soul, amplified around the pool of despair below me. A woman crouches, eardrums plagued with vicious whisper, a brutal hive of wonder blistering through her brain. She had gazed too far into the depth, dangled in desperation. Her knees crumbled under the weight of the shadows in torturous tremor. A sack of bones against an unruly tide.

25 words
A sonic screech scraped at the soul. Her eardrums plagued with vicious whisper, a brutal hive of wonder blistering through her brain. Her knees crumbled in torturous tremor; a sack of bones against an unruly tide.

The task involved us having to restrict the amounts of words further, to adapt the idea of getting the key points of descriptive language across. Although a struggle at first, I found this really helped develop the effect we needed to create over the piece.