The Performative Utterance in Hamlet/Class Notes

-The idea of saying something doesn't just describe it, but rather forms a reality in the world; moments and understandings
-Hamlet's soliloquies are him talking to himself in the moment and thus coming to expectations and realizations

-These realizations show Hamlet how he needs to develop throughout the play
-The locutionary force is hearing/understanding the ghost telling hamlet of the murder
-The Illocutionary force is Claudius telling Hamlet things he does not want to hear
-The perlocutionary effects are in the way these things are uttered
-Idea is that "sticks and stones..." Is wrong and words do have an effective force on life
-A self-fulfilling profecy leads us to certain ways of thinking that tend to support the hypothesis we are unsure of
-Hamlet flip flops from a general stance of affairs dependent on others to a very self-reflecting ideal
-Polonius is more like Hamlet then Claudius because he is more a person of words
-Thus, Polonius is open to words and verbal exchange, partially because he thinks he's clever and partially because he wants to know how things work
-Claudius says what he feels which is dishonest
-Hamlet went from tortured to very crass and inappropriate
-Chorus: group in a play that doesn't take action but rather sits on the side and sings what is going on
-Hamlet has undergone a mood swing that takes him to a more bravado state
-Polonius and Hamlet are both men of words while Claudius is a man of action
-Hamlet becomes angered with his mother because he is feeling the wrath of how he