THE PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE IN HAMLET

• Hamlet is all talk, but no walk
• things are easier said then done
• J.L Austin's theory of performativity; How to Do Things with Words
• describes how language doesn't describe an actions but acts in being spoken
• performative language divided into 3 main forces:
• locutionary force: language to deliver a message
• illocutionary force:what is done in being said ( denying a request, giving an order)
• perlocutionary force: what is achieved by being said
• performative language is not only what is done in the play, but tells us about the character
• Harold Bloom; "self-overhearing" 
• Shakespeare's characters over hear them self, and gain self knowledge
• "the royal road to individuation" 
• Hamlet over thinks himself; is this self revelation or creation?
• the audience only gets what they see and hear
• Shakespeare's characters had to present there inner selves to the audience though speeches & soliloquies