Examples Of Mindset In Othello

During the first and second acts, Othello is presented to the audience as a man of both wisdom and grace through the way he treats his wife, Desdemona, and her father, Brabantio. The curtains open with Iago and his foolhardy middleman, Roderigo, alerting Desdemona’s father of the fact that she is laying with and may have married a black man, a man he did not approve. Iago, being a man of two faces, runs to warn Othello. To all the bustle and legitimate cause for worry, he simply states “Let him [Brabantio] do his spite. My services shall out-tongue his complaints” (I,ii, 20-23). Othello stays completely level-headed and calm, despite the fact there is a chance that his beloved Desdemona may be taken from him. It goes to show that Othello begins

Another character that shows an example of mindset is brabantio,he shows a fixed mindset when it is

To have a fixed mindset means that you are stuck, you aren’t going anywhere. When challenged you give up and call it quits. A person with a fixed mindset could

Studies have proven that even those of high intelligence are not as successful as those with a growth mindset. In this mindset you face your failures as a way of learning and you come up with an alternative way to succeed. In the studies “Mindset; The New Psychology of Success” by Carol Dweck he shows that “In this mindset, the hand you’re dealt is just the starting point for development. This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.”(Dweck pg.52) Therefore Dweck explains having a growth mindset as the ability to adjust your characteristics of learning and your mentality through your own efforts or failures. Another character that shows a gritty mindset is Iago. Iago 's motivation is built on jealousy of Othello and come of as obsessive. He has clear intentions and motivations throughout the play, which leads to manipulation and destruction. In the play Iago says “I am about it, but indeed my invention comes from pate as birdlime does

From being questioned by Brabantio on the whereabouts of Desdemona (Brabantio’s daughter) to, killing his loved one based off of Iago’s convincing, Othello’s mindset has changed drastically throughout the play. When Othello killed Desdemona, it was out of pure jealousy because, his ancient, Iago, kept informing him Desdemona was having an “affair” with his lieutenant, Cassio. With Iago spreading these false accusations to Othello about Desdemona and Cassio, Othello’s mindset was growing into this, pure jealousy mind. An example of a growing mindset can be read in, Carol Dweck’s book, “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”. According to Dweck, the growing mindset is based off of your qualities. The things you could work through efforts you’ve made. However, it differs for some but can grow over time through experiences and practice. With that being said, Iago made efforts to change Othello’s mind and opinions about Cassio and Desdemona which would eventually, change Othello’s mind and lead to the death of

Mohandas K. Gandhi once proclaimed, “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men” (Gandhi n.p.). Women all throughout the world have been forced to endure innumerable hardships and struggles. Merely accepting women as a rightful component of society and a necessary aspect of culture has taken countless numbers of years. And to this day, unfortunately, gender equality has yet to become a reality for many. Certain judgments and stereotypes have been placed onto women from the very beginning of time. The belief that the female gender should only be seen in society as homemakers is something that is widely accepted by people in a multitude of countries and places. Despite the setbacks, various

Texts and their appropriations reflect the context and values of their times. Within Shakespeare’s Othello and Geoffrey Sax’s appropriation of Othello, the evolution of the attitudes held by Elizabethan audiences and those held by contemporary audiences can be seen through the context of the female coupled with the context of racism. The role of the female has developed from being submissive and “obedient” in the Elizabethan era to being independent and liberated within the contemporary setting. The racism of the first text is overtly xenophobic and natural, whilst the “moor” is unnatural whereas the updated context portrays Othello’s race as natural and racism as unnatural. Therefore these examples show how Shakespeare’s Othello, and it’s

#Bring awareness to close-mindedness. A fixed mindset is narrow and insecure. You might have a fixed mindset if you view challenges negatively, think your abilities are static, and feel threatened by others’ successes. Those

Author Carol Dweck definition of mindset is divided among two components, a fixed and a growth mindset. She believes a fixed mindset is the beliefs that an individual's basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are fixed traits and that everyone is born with a certain amount of those traits, with no improvement throughout time. She also believes that a growth mindset is the total opposite. A growth mindset is a state of mind in which the individual believes there is room for improvement on their basic abilities, due to hard work and dedication to see something out to it’s entirety. This mindset withdraws the belief that you're given talent is all that's needed for success. Psychology professor,

Ethics never went out of fashion in philosophy. It did, however, in literary studies. In Critical Terms for Literary Study, Geoffrey Galt Harpham asks, ?What is ethics? The answers to this simple inquiry are complexity itself, for they take us straight to the decentered center of ethics, its concern for ?the other?? (394). According to Harpham, ?Ethics does not solve problems, it structures them? (404). Ethics, he argues further, helps humans to articulate and negotiate questions of moral law and the human other. Shakespeare?s Othello serves as a brilliant example of how literature explores such questions. The essays and texts that will be discussed here can help readers articulate and negotiate those questions?both in Othello and in the world. The characters in Shakespeare?s play use language to ?other? Othello. Examining that language?and interrogating the way black actors playing Othello have been treated?helps a reader to consider the ethical dilemma of race and language.

"Othello is essentially an noble character, flawed by insecurity and a nature that is naive and unsophisticated". Looking at William Shakespeare's Othello The Moor Of Venice, the central character, Othello is revered as the tragic hero. He is a character of high stature that is destroyed by his surroundings, his own actions, and his fate. His destruction is essentially precipitated by his own actions, as well as by the actions of the characters surrounding him. The tragedy of Othello is not a fault of a single villain, but is rather a consequence of a wide range of feelings, judgments and misjudgments, and attempts for personal justification exhibited by all of the participants. Othello is first shown as a hero of war and a man of

The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society in England in the sixteenth-century.

Sara Ykalo CP English 12 (2B) In Shakespeare's playwright, Othello uses a different kind of story line. It has a mixture of drama and different cases of emotions to express a literary that the reader goes through. He delivers various tragedies and unexpected moments along with moments of emotional conflict that make the story different from others. Shakespeare is usually known for using this type of theme throughout his stories.

Critics have debated the significance of Othello’s race in terms of portraying his identity for a long time. The negative connotations of “blackness” have led to the creation of many racial constructs associated with the “Moor”; this denigration has infused the opinions of many critics, such as Albert Gerard, proposing that Othello’s “negroid physiognomy” reaches down to the “deepest levels of personality” and that he is a “barbarian”. However, many other critics like Edward Berry and Martin Orkin believe that colour is merely a “surface indicator” compared to the outward virtue of beneficence, defining identity. Beneficence could be defined by the will to practice good acts, in conjunction with the aversion of practicing evil, and the prevention and removal of evil.

“I am not who I am.” Shakespeare’s Othello suggests the truism that human nature is at core savage through Iago’s ambition and duplicity. Geoffrey Sax builds upon this concept by suggesting the irrelevance of morality/the distinction between good and evil in 1980’s London. Personal ambition still plays a major role in lives of humans both in Shakespeare’s period and the 20th and 21st century.