Performative Utterance Lecture Notes Nov. 12, 2014

• application, analysis theories
• we create understanding within ourselves
• Jane Austen-Theory of performativity
• Hamlet is creating a universe through thought
• Perlocutionary- an act performed by a speaker upon a listener
• creating something that becomes truer as we talk about it
• Hamlet is reinforcing his lack of uncertainty
• He goes from "this sucks" to "I suck"
• "I'm not that good guy" which makes it really personal for him
• Can words change someone's personalities?
• Do we create ourselves as we go or is it all set in stones?
• Polonius is a creature of language and words
• Claudius isn't about negotiations, which we see through the way he kills his brother
• He is a sympathetic character
• He is rotten and possesses no morals
• Shakespeare portrays that it would be unsympathetic act to kill someone on his knees praying

To be continued...