Question

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.

Answer 1

William Faulkner, accepting the Nobel Prize, argued that literature holds a special duty to lift the human heart us of our capac by reminding ity for "compassion and sacrifice and endurance." It is suffering that traditionally requires these powers, and literature may thus develop and sustain a resource needed in times ...