Which central idea does William Faulkner develop in “Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950”?


Faulkner believes that writers need to write with love, hope, courage, and compassion.

Writers must write about the fear of living in a time of the threat of nuclear war.

Faulkner states that writers of his time write only about lust and not about love or subjects of value.

Writers have forgotten that the only subjects worth writing about are problems of the heart in conflict with itself.
Question 2
Part B

Which detail from the text best helps to develop the central idea in Part A?


“Until he learns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man.”

“He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion.”

“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.”

“It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.”