Text Analysis About John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Text analysis about
John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Summary
The text is John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. In his speech he speaks about what literature means to him. In his great love for literature, he sees how people don’t appreciate it as much as they used to. He also mentions William Faulkner, his predecessor, who believed that a tragedy of physical fear, has sustained so long, that there are no more problems of the human spirit and only heart, with conflict with itself, seems like something worth writing about. Steinbeck also mentions Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and engineer, who was afraid that his inventions, into human hands, will lead to destruction. I think Steinbeck, taking the opportunity, talks not only about literature and how it has changed, but also about mankind, and how that has changed.
Macro-theme
The macro theme is about literature. How it has grown and developed through times. How mankind takes advantage of things. Too much power has given to people and only two choices, two options what to do. And too often we make the wrong decisions. Steinbeck
Hyper themes
At the beginning he says his thanks to the Swedish Academy for finding his work worthy to honour him. He is very grateful, although he is not certain he deserves the award.
Standing where he is, in front of lot of people, knowing a lot of people will hear him, he is impelled to talk about things that are important to him and things that matter.
Further he talks about literature, how it is not something that was promulgated by priesthood. It is something that is very valuable. People have passed through a period of confusion. Literature is something that human kind can’t live without, as well as literature can’t live and grow without people.
Then he speaks about fear that overcomes mankind. Not only emotional fear, but also fear from physical world. Alfred Nobel, whose life Steinbeck has read, invented the dynamite. After his great
John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Summary
The text is John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. In his speech he speaks about what literature means to him. In his great love for literature, he sees how people don’t appreciate it as much as they used to. He also mentions William Faulkner, his predecessor, who believed that a tragedy of physical fear, has sustained so long, that there are no more problems of the human spirit and only heart, with conflict with itself, seems like something worth writing about. Steinbeck also mentions Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and engineer, who was afraid that his inventions, into human hands, will lead to destruction. I think Steinbeck, taking the opportunity, talks not only about literature and how it has changed, but also about mankind, and how that has changed.
Macro-theme
The macro theme is about literature. How it has grown and developed through times. How mankind takes advantage of things. Too much power has given to people and only two choices, two options what to do. And too often we make the wrong decisions. Steinbeck
Hyper themes
At the beginning he says his thanks to the Swedish Academy for finding his work worthy to honour him. He is very grateful, although he is not certain he deserves the award.
Standing where he is, in front of lot of people, knowing a lot of people will hear him, he is impelled to talk about things that are important to him and things that matter.
Further he talks about literature, how it is not something that was promulgated by priesthood. It is something that is very valuable. People have passed through a period of confusion. Literature is something that human kind can’t live without, as well as literature can’t live and grow without people.
Then he speaks about fear that overcomes mankind. Not only emotional fear, but also fear from physical world. Alfred Nobel, whose life Steinbeck has read, invented the dynamite. After his great