The Performative Utterance in Hamlet (notes and response)

Commentary: Warning I am reading and then writing what I think so this may be slightly strange!
Also the text is "The Performative Utterance in Hamlet" by deBoer. All quotations are taken  from this text unless other wise stated within the text.

• Wow its 20 pages, how can this possibly be so long?
• Utterance: smallest unit of speech. Something said or emitted as a vocal sound. Performative: Lived experience. (for some reason spell check doesn't like the word performative) performing speech act: describes speech that constitutes an act of some kind. A speech that promises and action to itself.
• On page one of the essay deBoer states that "From the time of the revelation of his uncle's great crimefrom the mouth of the ghost, Hamlet's utterances betray little or no wavering in his understanding of his duty or his dedication to completing it. "But I have to disagree with this statement. Just in Hamlet's famous soliloquy "To Be or Not To Be" Hamlet says "And lose the name of action." (Shakespeare, ACT III scene i). Although a reader can argue that Hamlet is talking himself out of his suicide and saying he cannot go through with it, the text is ambiguous enough to make the statement that the action Hamlet is losing is the will to kill his uncle. Furthermore at the end of ACT III, after killing Polonius, Hamlet is again visited by the Ghost of his late father, who tells him to not forget his duty to revenge. (Shakespeare ACTIII scene iv). This alone is evidence enough for Hamlet wavering in his duty and resolve to serve up a dish of revenge.
• Seriously I make this long argument, but right after deBoer actually makes a similar point as mine to back up his previous statement and provide another outlook to the situation.
• I love the use of the phrase cognitive paralysis!
• "For much of the play Hamlet is able to speak but not to do." (deBoer, pg 1) I agree completely, his conscious, situation, and need for proof are evidence of this.
• Random point not associated with this essay, but is it just me or is Hamlet incredibly sassy?
• "Harold Bloomargues that Shakespeare's characters frequently develop through "self-overhearing."Shakespeare's characters, in this argument, overhear themselves speaking and in doing so gainself-knowledge. Bloom considers this self-overhearing the "royal road to individuation" (xvii)..." (deBoer, pg 3) I don't think this process is something just seen in Shakespeare's plays, but also in everyday life. Many people talk to themselves and find meaning through journaling, writing stories, or like Hamlet just good old self talk.
•  Austin's theory of performativity (pg 3) Kira Hall, Yale University & Colorado.edu (interesting article, and does a great job of explaining it)