Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

- Hamlet is considered a man who can not make up his mind
- in reality he is a man of dedication to enact his crime, even though he doesn't so it until the very end of the play.
-Austin says that acts are being spoken but not necessarily preformed.
-talks about language and how tones effect the play, or "surrounding reality".
-what hamlets performative acting tells us about the character
-hamlet is a complex character that many people do not understand or relate to. 
-the invention of the human by bloom,says that Shakespeare does a method of self-overhearing in which the characters learn a self knowledge for hearing themselves speak.
-talks about Shakespeare and what kind of person he was, goes into the forms in which he wanted to show to his audiences.
-Shakespeare's characters would not be as complex if he did not use this method.
-talk about the play in parts, an important utterance is the communication between the ghost and hamlet.
-states that hamlet never actually swears to avenge his father. 
- he said evenge which doesn't have the same meaning 
-knowing the author and what the author meant makes the utterances easier to understand and know because they are broken down into each section the 

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