Rhetorical Analysis Of William Faulkner's Acceptance Speech

American writer, poet, and novelist William Faulkner in his inspirational acceptance speech “William Faulkner: Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature (1950),” asserts that most people have forgotten about what writing is about and why they write. He develops his message by explaining a series of actions that writers must take apart of to remember their sole purpose of writing, and what makes writing important. Specifically, in paragraph 2, the last sentence states “-the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about…” which explains his opinion that the only way to make good writing is to make it come from the heart with the conflicts surrounding it. Further,