Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Performative Utterance in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

performative: relating to or denoting an utterance by means of which the speaker performs a particular act.
utterance: spoken word, statement or vocal sound; the action of saying or expressing something aloud.

Hamet's struggle is in doing what his brain is telling him to do. And not in whether or not he should kill himself.

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