hamlet essay

Being the talkative person that I've been since I was taught how to talk I've been blabbing out sentences everywhere without being aware of what I really say in between those lines. The words we use are how we communicate and present our feeling and emotion to another person. My mom tells me to take clean my room and wash he dishes all the time and I always respond with either: "I'll clean later." or "Yeah, mom I will." What you say is what you end up doing. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the characters words create the plot which is performative utterance. 

Hamlet's emotions is the reason why he is a horrible decision maker. He is constantly over thinking which plan of revenge is better or which one would benefit his evil thoughts. He has multiple self-talks caused him to contemplate on murder ans suicide. Throughout the story Hamlet starts to realize the power of his words and the impact it has on everything that he says he will do or not do. Not only that but he also realized the consequences of what he speaks of does to others. Hamlet is always setting goals for himself but doesn't fall through with what he truly wants. His multiple soliloquies of causes him  to self-overhear everything and doesn't follow through with what he says he wants to do. Performative utterance creates a way for Hamlet to speak and  show what he does.

I understand why Hamlet does the things he does. He over thinks which causes him to overhear statements and plans and not coming through with what he says. We all have that little voice in out head that guides us to do the right thing and that's what throws us off. Not just us but Hamlet has a conscience that stops him from doing evil things. But, in the end it's all about the way we analyze things. I can say the most negative things about myself. I can beat myself up for not being smart enough, pretty enough, or fit enough. But, in the end it's not worth it. My conscience develops this other cloud of positivity that helps me think the right thing and eliminate the wrong things I say. 

When we hear ourselves talk the way we talk and think about whether or not we actually do the things we say we will do it makes you think: "Wow, why am I not doing what I said I was going to do?" When people ask me what colleges I'm applying to and I reply after I think about if I'm actually going to follow through. And I blame laziness and procrastination for everything that I don't end up doing. But, in Hamlet's case his conscience is what causes him to act the way he is. He's all talk and no action because he ends up thinking about if everything will end up the way he wants. And in the end Hamlet kills himself in the end with the decisions he made all because of what led him on the path to his death.