Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The Performative Utterance in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Notes

.Hamlet is hesitant throughout the course of the play with actually following through with his actions to quench his vengeance.
. Helps draw comparisons between what Hamlet says and what Hamlet does, and the reasoning behind it.
.Hamlet's utterances actually teach him a lot about himself, not just the audience.
.Consider the interaction between the first player and Hamlet. What moves Hamlet is verbal/emotional action not physical displaying his mourning for his father/mother
.From here, we connect emotions to belief-An important distinction.
.It can be said that the main problem in the story is that it's characters represent their feelings/intentions in ways that contradict reality.
.Hamlet is generative not merely because of what is done with language in the play, but because of what this performative language tells us about its characters.

.Hamlet's character development is not towards action as seen in multiple cases but rather by his reliance on his fathers words.

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