Listen to a short paragraph of the Episode and write it down (classwork).

Teachers’ Note:

The teacher can choose either extract to complete it in class in written form. Practise three-four listening before scripting the extract.

Extract 1

05:10 - I was walking along a road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly, the sky became a bloody red. I stopped, leaned against a railing, dead tired, and I looked at the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends walked on. I stood there trembling with fright, and I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

In re-creating that feeling, Munch places it at the very spot where he experienced it. The landscape behind the figure is not at all imaginary; it’s the actual site in Oslo, then known as Kristiania, where that terrible feeling overtook him. In fact, the background landscape is loaded with meaning. For one thing, this is a famous spot in Oslo, the traditional vantage point for artists to portray the city.

Extract 2

17:58 - “It’s expressionistic because it wants to express this pain and anguish which is behind the surface. An impressionist picture would have allowed the mystery to remain in the depths of the canvass, behind the clouds. An expressionist picture has to force the pain and anguish out into the external world.”

“He developed this wonderful, anti-naturalistic aesthetic and used that expressively to state psychic moods. And of course The Scream is the absolute epitome of that kind of project.”

5 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:

Teachers’ Notes: Choose any of the items for scripting as a home assignment.

1. Edward Munch’s obsession.

the bare fact of by definition conceptual idea in anguish paradoxical idea to emit a sound to transcend into

2. Interpreting The Scream.

to emanate from the intensity of to come from the enormity of the sound of a real-life experience

3. Munch’s background

to vibrate with memories an asylum for to recall sounds a scruffy spot manic depression to overwhelm dizzy and frightful to be burdened with literal truth to condemn smb to to lay in store to deteriorate bouts of sickness

scruffy – shabby, неряшливый, грязный

4. Munch’s social and artistic environment.

a bourgeois town a puritanical society Lutheran a bohemian group to proclaim a commandment as gospel the dissolute life to join in with the anguish of the swarming Oslo bourgeoisie heartbroken to face the trauma of to pertify smb to deplore smth

Lutheran - 1) a follower of Martin Luther (1483-1546), the German leader of the Protestant Reformation, or a member of a Lutheran Church; puritanical - strict in moral or religious outlook, esp in avoiding sensual pleasures; bohemian - a person, esp an artist or writer, who lives an unconventional life; take smth. as gospel принимать за истину, принимать что-л. на веру; dissolute life — распутный образ жизни; to swarm - to congregate, move about or proceed in large numbers; толпиться, кишеть; to deplore - to express or feel sorrow about; a strong disapproval of;

5. Writing his own manifesto.

abundant material a conscious decision to take shape in a vast landscape to lean over railings at face value in a state of seizure to resound to the foreground vicious yellow sky

vicious - wicked or cruel; characterized by violence or ferocity; unpleasantly severe; seizure - a sudden manifestation or recurrence of a disease, such as an epileptic convulsion; to resound - to make a prolonged echoing noise;

6. From The Despair to The Scream. Munch’s Expressionism.

the terrible shriek a mood painting further versions a pastel drawing to look outwards to twist like a connoisseur of a spiritual experience a sort of a universe image a Peruvian mummy a fetal position a fascinating exhibit a psychic self-portrait to distort

Peruvian - a native or inhabitant of Peru; mummy - preserved body, esp as prepared for burial in ancient Egypt; connoisseur a person with special knowledge or appreciation of a field, esp in the arts; fetal or foetal of, relating to, or resembling a fetus; эмбриональный, зародышевый; a fetal position – the body position of an unborn child inside his mother

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