Hamlet and performative utterance

Hamlet as a character and a play both clearly advocate the locutionary, per-locutionary, and illocutionary techniques of communication. Not only do I go though the same steps without consciously knowing, along with self-overhearing, as Hamlet also does.

          Everything throughout the play is learned through actions and what is said. Hamlet went through many soliloquy’s of self-overhearing, the most well known was the “To be or not to be”, when he debates to himself about suicide, it gives the reader a look into his thoughts. Performative utterance, according to Austin is not a sense of true or false, but happy and unhappy, which is the performance of the illocutionary act. Words aren’t necessarily the only part of the message, just as if someone as if someone is misunderstanding of what I am trying to get across to them. Just as in Hamlet a lot of feelings are within the words being spoken through the characters. Especially in the beginning when he converses with Hamlet, his words base a feeling for the reader to grasp an understanding of the characters relationships with one another. In everyday reality words take a huge toll on what goes on. Without words our daily lives become complicated and difficult to maintain a culture of communication.

          Your words perform your actions and without performative utterance words would have less meaning. There wouldn’t be much use for communication.