What does "The Scream" (Edward Munch) represent?

Question: What does "The Scream" (Edward Munch) represent!?

I keep staring at this painting, but I can't figure it out!.

It's a profoundly moving painting, but I don't know what it means! Do you!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I believe that with "The Scream" Edvard Munch was portraying mankind's continued slide into personal isolation and the vulgar entrenchment of capitalism run amok!.
At the close of the 19th century the Industrial Revolution was folding into the machine age!. While "The Scream" predates the invention of the airplane, one can see in the face of the Screamer foreshadowing of the public face of horror-stricken victims of the aerial bombing of cities soon to come, the angst-ridden faces of the dispossessed, and the rapid overall decline in human connection!. Over time, as the hand-written manuscript gave way to the printed page and on to the telegraph and then the telephone, the ease with which humans incorporated mechanical means of communication masked the lowered level of human intercourse---in other words, though means of communication made contact much faster, the content of the messages became more banal, ill-considered, and terse!. (One can easily see the effects of this now, as two "friends" will share seats on a train but ignore each other while they madly "text" absent third parties, even unaware of the passing scene outside the window!)
In short, Edvard Munch used the screamer on the bridge as a sour commentary on the Western civilization of which he was both a part and a victim!.
The terrified countenance is mirrored in the faces of Oswald coming out of the Dallas jail, the napalmed Vietnamese girl running down the road, and the New Yorkers disbelievingly staring up as bodies fell from the twin towers!.
Munch saw the future, and we are it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

How I feel at this Bush administration!.Www@QuestionHome@Com