The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

• "...powerful in mind but still at the mercy of the will of those around him."  WOW.

• "Where Hamlet wavers is in the physical commission of this duty, in transcending the confines of his mental determination into the physical space" Hamlet knows what he must do and has decided it is the right thing, but just can't physically bring himself to do it. He sabotages himself by keeping it all in his head.

• Language is divided by: what is done is being said (illocutionary force), ability of language to deliver a message (locutionary force), and what is achieved by being said (perlocutionary force)

• "self overhearing" characters make self discovery/ revelations based off what they hear themselves say

• Hamlet only swore out loud to remember his father not actually avenge his murder...hmm