William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

The way in which William Faulkner delivered his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech conveyed it to be a “call to action” to not only the audience listening but to other writers and poets. In his speech he says “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it” (Page 2). Being that Faulkner was alive during the cold war, a time when both the US and the USSR were creating atomic weapons that could wipe out either country, and during an economic downturn we can see that his comments are addressing the world’s unified scare, not only of war but to express themselves wholly and truthfully.
The strong tone of the speech and also the creative fiction genre of the speech makes it have a borderline
grand style of writing. As Faulkner begins his acceptance speech he conveys ethos by separating himself from his work. In doing this, he does not come as being bigheaded