CONVERSATION (NOTES) ON HAMLET AND "PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE..."

• State of being flexible is extremely important in the world.
• As a successful learner, you have to acknowledge new information and change your mind accordingly.
• Hamlet is convinced of his duty but he is unable to act on it.
• If you say something, it creates a sense of reality and not just ideas and thoughts put in words.
• Talking creates understanding.
• Talking to ourselves creates a sense of understanding for us and ourselves.
• An expectation for an action was set by King Hamlet.
• Perlocutionary: dictionary definition: relating to an act preformed by a speaker upon a listener.
• Self fulfilling prophecy: confirm what we know. An action that tends to support a hypothesis.
• Hamlet is reinforcing his thoughts and beliefs.
• He concludes based on his thought process that he will not be able to act upon his duty.
• There is no difference between words and action.
• Polonius is a character of words and Claudius is a character of actions.
• Why is Polonius more similar to Hamlet than Claudius is? Because Polonius is a creature of words and language.
• Hamlet's motive is not to just get rid of Claudius but to take revenge and send Claudius to hell.
• Is not killing Gertrude and punishing Claudius a sexist act?
• Letting Gertrude suffer through her guilt is the biggest punishment the ghost wanted to give her.
• Claudius finally realizes that Hamlet knows what he did and he needs to take an action against him by sending him away and getting rid of him.
• Chorus is a group of people in a play that stands on a side and sings what happens in the play and explains it.
• Killing Polonius moved Hamlet from a character of words to a character of action.
• It served as a spark for Hamlet to evoke his emotions and let out his anger.
• For the first time, Hamlet has integrity: he was ready to kill Claudius. He finally proved himself to be a murderer.
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