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
