Examples Of Grit In Othello

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Faith George
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01/20/2017
Othello and Grit
According to the article Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, Dweck’s research showed that the way you perceive yourself and the way you adopt it, affects the path you take throughout the course of your life. Mindset is viewed from two different perspectives; fixed mindset and growth mindset. These perspectives affect motivation and impact achievement. The fixed mindset is the belief that your abilities are permanent which causes traits like moral character, intelligence and personality to be limited also causing a sense of self consciousness. As said by Dweck, it’s “a hand you’re dealt and have to live with”, meaning it’s accepting what you have and dealing …show more content…

He is seen to be strange but it’s both threatening and intriguing because he dramatically differs from the rest of the characters of Othello. Othello shows qualities of a person with grit and growth mindset, which later forms into fixed mindset. He is filled with love and passion, especially for his wife, Desdemona, whom is European. Othello is open to being married to a European woman knowing that Africans with dark skin are usually known to be beasts. He was determined to prove his love for his wife and he wouldn’t stop until everyone accepted his marriage for what it was, a Nigerian in holy matrimony with a European woman. But, thanks to the evil Iago, Othello’s growth mindset changes to fixed mindset when he is manipulated to believe his lovely Desdemona is sleeping with his Lieutenant Cassio. “Haply for I am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have, or for I am declined into the vale of years - yet that’s so much - she’s gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites! I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others’ uses. Yet ‘tis the plague of great ones; prerogatived are they less than the base. ‘Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.” (Othello Act 3.3.263-275). When he says “and have not soft parts of conversation” he is starting to believe all of the things people say about those with darker skin, barbaric and inarticulate. This shows that Iago’s lies are starting to affect Othello’s humane character. Iago’s lies also bring out Othello’s perseverance and grit to prove himself as a warrior who rid Venice of a whore, Desdemona. After discovering the true lies of Iago, Othello begins to feel guilty for taking part in Desdemona's killing. With all the guilt killing him inside, he stabs

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