Nobel Speech

Faulkner, during his Nobel Prize awarding speech, mentioned that young writers should work on topics that is "the old universal truths…love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” That makes absolute perfect sense. Although these six themes are cliche, great works and lasting arts are only created with those topics. In the ultimate awesome Shakespearian novel, "Romeo and Juliet", covered all 6 of them. The love between Romeo and Juliet, the honor of the families, the pity of their death, the pride in their love, the compassion towards each other, and the sacrifice they made for their family. All those can also be seen faintly in "A Rose for Emily". Love with Homer, Pride of his father, Pity of Emily's misfortune, Honor of her family, Compassion toward Homer, and Sacrifice of her everything to him. It is evident that Faulkner is consistent in his ideas along the entire way in his literature career.