Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet Notes

*AFTER a quick scan of the document

-Locutionary Force: the ability of language to deliver a message
-Illocutionary Force: what is done in being said
-Perlocutionary Force: What is achieved  by being said

-Critics think of Hamlet's character with a dramatic arc that begs explication
-The oath in the scene with the Ghost and Hamlet is an example of illocutionary force
- "Hamlet does not swear to avenge his father if you read closely"
-"the central problem of the play is that people represent their feelings and their intentions in ways that are contrary to reality"

-Roles of Hamlet:
     Hamlet the mourning son
     Hamlet the student
     Hamlet the heir to the throne
     Hamlet the avenger

-True formlessness of thy self.  Aka Suicide

-Polonius could be the vision of the pre modern man
   He has the structures

-The bloodshed in the play is a result of Laertes's actions

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