Act III & The Performative Utterance

• A successful learner takes new information and acknowledges it and isn't afraid to change their mind.
• Hamlet knows what to do but isn't able to do it.
• Perlocutionary: of or relating to an act (as of persuading, frightening, or annoying) performed by a speaker upon a listener by means of an utterance.
• Polonius is a character of words and King Claudius is a character of action.
• Hamlet is shifting his anger from King Claudius and Queen Gertrude to himself, because he is unable to do his duty.
• Queen Gertrude's punishment would come form her own conscience. 
•  Hamlet's uncertainty to kill Claudius was forgotten after he killed Polonius.
• Killing someone in mid-prayer would automatically send them to hell.