Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Notes on "The Performative Utterance in William Shakespeare's Hamlet"

Here's the link for the actual paper... click me!

  • sounds very familiar to the way we've been talking about Hamlet in class
  • first paragraph is brilliant; I wish I had such sophisticated vocabulary, syntax,and diction
  • performative language acts has the power to change
    • locutionary=message
    • illocutinary=what's done in being sid
    • perlocutionary=achieved
  • characters realize what they say and do and realize themselves through this
  • how only words affect Hamlet and make him sad and guilty
  • what words used,their authenticity, context used in, matter
  • he tells the players to basically not "out Hamlet, Hamlet"
  • performative utterance = say it but not mean it
  • Polonius is a narrowminded, pre-man
  • Hamlet is a character who possesses so much
    • he can "construct himself"
  • Claudius is in between Polonius and Hamlet
  • In the end, Hamlet had to achieve faith, closure, and acceptance not take action
  • After the first paragraph I realized that I'm not fluent in reading to this caliber and had a rough time understanding many parts 
In Class Discussion
  • what is said creates things, reality
  • Hamlet- self-overhearing
  • expectation created by ghost- locutionary
  • perlocutionary- effect of forces
  • self fulfilling prophesy? Builds on how he's not sure about killing gets worse, feeling
  • he goes from "it sucks" to "i sick"
  • performative utterance about others, too
  • ***if words are just words, why do they matter????
  • words are more
  • the ones to prove ^
  • polonius- words, claudius- action
    • motivated by passion
    • selfish- claudius situational irony and sees that king's answer isn't be answer hamlet doesnt kill
  • Hamlet actually loses his temper to gertrude
    • compare/contrast to other times he didnt get mad
  • sits and thinks-that's her punishment
  • Hamlet's a threat
  • Claudius goes from confident to guilty
  • Hamlet from tortured and awful to more attitude, knowing, cocky
  • chorus in play- stand to sing explanations
    • good resource in a play 
  • polonius and hamlet are kind of foils
  • Hamlet gets mad because
    • rush of killing, knowing he's right, confronting gertrude
  • hold up a mirror "you go not till i set you up in a glass" to see her soul
  • her panic started it all
  • verbal daggers to gertrude
  • hearing ourselves say something
  • transforms words into actions (hamlet)
  • lets out more words (polonius) as he dies, true to character
  • hamlet has more integrity
  • he's ready to kill Claudius
  • the murder was a catalyst- "self overhearing"
  • ghost still wants hamelt to have a realtionship with his mom
  • hamlet tells gertrude not to tell Claudius 

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