-"The Performative Utterance in Hamlet" by Fredrick deBoer showed a new point of view of the character Hamlet. Hamlet is all talk, but barely any bite. He uses soliloquies and the loss of mental stability as a way to show of his emotions in a dramatic way in order to show others without doing something about it.
- This paper was very interesting because the discussion of what is in his mind and what is real is a key question within the story. The ghost and various other events show how Hamlet is completely and utterly lost within his own mind, which causes him to over think more and act less. We, the audience, have no idea if the ghost is real or not because it can go either way.
-Overall, I agree with the statement presented in this paper partially because Hamlet is all talk in the beginning, but once he kills Polonius, I believe that Hamlet will become more active which will cause him to not think before he acts.
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