珍珠约翰斯坦贝克观后感合计(5)

nobel saw some of the cruel and bloody misuses of his inventions. he may even have foreseen the end result of his probing - access to ultimate violence - to final destruction. some say that he became cynical, but i do not believe this. i think he strove to invent a control, a safety valve. i think he found it finally only in the human mind and the human spirit.
to me, his thinking is clearly indicated in the categories of these awards.
they are offered for increased and continuing knowledge of man and of his world - for understanding and communication, which are the functions of literature. and they are offered for demonstrations of the capacity for peace - the culmination of all the others.
less than fifty years after his death, the door of nature was unlocked and we were offered the dreadful burden of choice.