HAMLET REMIX

       1ST ATTEMPT: Hamlet's character uses three languages to get his ideas, thoughts and actions across. These languages consist of, locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary force. Locutionary is when Hamlet speaks of his plans, he is basically delivering a message; getting his ideas in the air. Illocutionary is experiencing that idea, it is whatever is being done when the idea, thought or emotion is being said.  As Hamlet tells Horatio his plan does he pace around the room?, hold anything?, lower or higher his voice? Perlocutionary force is what is achieved by what is being said, so basically what actions have been done. I believe what Austin is trying to let the reader know is that there is a connection between what is said and what is done. There is a process and it begins with locutionary force and makes its way up to perlocutionary force; from words to actions.

      Every time Hamlet says one of his soliloquies he is self overhearing. He is hearing himself think and feeling the emotion through his own words. Every time Hamlet speaks to himself he has a melancholic yet angry and disappointing almost hopeless tone. The tone allows the reader to recognize how desperate and in need Hamlet is. He is wrestling with his thoughts and emotions and contemplating whether or not he should make them a reality. Hamlet is trapped and is unsure on how to take his locutionary force to perlocutionary force.  If he made the transition he would actually be doing something with his words instead of throwing them up into the air. There is a process that Hamlet has to go through to actually make the transformation successful. I am an over-thinker sometimes I make things harder than they really are. The thoughts and ideas that run in and out of my head are a vast amount. I believe there is a process to changing words into actions. When my words slip into the air I know that all of a sudden there is something tying me to them, whether it be accountability or just plain hope that I could get whatever I said done. The more I say something the more I reassure myself that it could be done. Sooner than later I see myself achieving what I said. Hamlet is the same way; he goes through a process, restates his goal and ideas to himself often and finally turns his words into actions by killing Claudius.

      When I look back on an experience I like to think of an accomplishment or something I struggled to    achieve. How did I get to that point? What drove me? The memory is created by the struggle. Hamlet had to battle with the memory and command of his father. He suffered his loss and was motivated to to carry on a memory, a legacy, that of his father.

      In the beginning of the play it almost seemed as if Hamlet were going to be the vision of pre-modern man, but throughout the course of the play he proved the reader wrong. Instead of being a talker he converted himself into a man of action. By pre-modern man Austin meant someone who talks and talks, but does no action. Polonius was the perfect example, he was like the dog that barked the loudest, but never bit a leg.

     

2ND ATTEMPT: 

3RD ATTEMPT: PEER INTERPRETATIONS

I went up to as many people in our class and asked what they thought about performative utterance, Hamlet and self-overhearing. I had lots of fun going around and asking if they could share their knowledge. ☺

Izamar: Performative utterance is a series of words that not only convey action in them, but influence it also. Hamlet used words to make people think he was crazy and was successful. Performative utterance is about saying the words to a specific person and having that person get the meaning you want them to get. 

Javi: Hamlet is crazy lol

Mia: The purpose was to break down the language in Hamlet, to give us a better understanding of things.

Sam: (puts face on desk)

Ugh that requires thinking

Alright

(face palm)

Andrew: I have nothing to say on the subject

Lindsey: Perforamtive utterance is the ability to say something, hear it, and act upon it. 

Kendall: Self-overhearring is when you say something out loud and it reinforces your belief that it is something you want to do. 

Ricky: Not right now

Miranda: Performative utterance helps you portray your general message, tone, the way you speak, your body language etc. It helps you decode a persons character. 

TED TALK ON BODY LANGUAGE: Amy Cuddy

check it out on: 

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html