Hamlet Essay 2

In Hamlet, he has several major soliloquies where he speaks out loud to talk himself through his problems. Self- overhearing helps him sort through his problems and decide what actions to follow through with based on his decisions. Personally, my self-overhearing is similar where as, it helps a lot to walk myself through any obstacles I may have. Austin’s performative utterance shows in Hamlet’s character because his words are actions, only being spoken. When reflecting on experiences, the mood of the atmosphere can drastically change the way you look back on that memory at a later time. The lecutionary force in Hamlet is prominent in the character Hamlet, much of the book he is getting through problems that could ultimately make or break him.
Hamlet if faced with a countless number of problems and feels as if there is no one he can truly turn to for help. Claudius gets even his best friends to, in a way, to betray Hamlet by spying on him and reporting back to the King. Also Hamlet is in a great deal of distress because of his fathers passing and his mothers’ remarriage to his horrible uncle. Hamlet would not be able to overcome these situations if he wasn’t able to talk himself through them. The performative utterance his words take on affects the play as a whole, and Hamlets character greatly. The action of speaking to himself out loud of his problems gives him a sense of sanity. Ideas many times sound better in your head, but when hearing them out loud it helps you to see if your ideas on how to solve your problems sound sane to the outside world as well as the world inside of your head.
For myself, working through problems helps me tremendously. Going over how to solve situations helps me learn more about myself. In the process of making important decisions I reflect on the type of person I want to be and where the different paths I can take, based off of the situation, will lead me. This can get me through any major decision; it is the smaller ones that seem to be my biggest obstacles. Being one of the most indecisive people ever, I always need a second opinion on the smaller decisions like what shirt to buy or where to go to lunch with friends. The problem with the smaller choices and why I am able to make bigger ones on my own is because when thinking of where to eat you don’t have to reflect on your self, except for what kind of food you like. Going over your problems, or decisions you must make, it always helps to talk your way through it and to consider every outcome.
When waking up in the morning in a bad mood, you set your day up for disaster. When going in to a test saying you’re going to fail, you will almost certainly do worse then the goal grade you were hoping to achieve. The mood you’re in and the attitude you have towards something is a sign of what you will achieve that day, or on that test, compared to the goal you have set for yourself. For Hamlet, he promised his father’s ghost he would avenge him and he passionately followed through with that promise. All though it was not easy, he worked his way through it by reflecting on his decisions like in the “To be or not to be” soliloquy where he had already decided not to kill himself but was making sure he had made the right decision. The air about your promises can be a symbol early on if you are going to follow through with your words, strive to meet your goals, or if you will willingly fall short of them.
So, in the end the benefits for talking through your problems and happily verbally committing to your goals in life will get you much farther then if you have a bad attitude and lazily look at where you want to be compared to where you are. The prelocutionary force is powerful and when pursuing the effect your words have on you and others you can get anywhere you want to be.