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. Edvard Munch's The Scream shows an expression of agony. The similarity is all about Agony.