When we say things, we create moments and understandings and a sense of reality.
Hamlet's soliloquies create expectations for himself which in increasingly negative.
J L Austin's theory of performative utterance applied to Hamlet in Boore's essay in which he states, lets us know the characters.
Perlocutionary, locutionary, illlocutionary forces, cause and effect
Self fulfilling prophecy confirms what we know. Hamlet's is questioning if he is the one to avenge his father's death, uncertainty.
Polonius is a creature of language.
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