Shakespeare is considered to be one of the most influential individuals in English literature through his unique way of writing plays. Aside from being able to create a good story and making the plot interesting for the audience when being performed, one of the techniques Shakespeare used to create unique play scripts from all other play writers of his time is the way he manipulate how his characters communicated. A major example of that method can be seen in many parts of the play Othello through Shakespeare's use of prose instead of the traditional blank verse. Blank verse, A.K.A. iambic pentameter, was the general style of speech used in the play. It's a form of formal speech, in which, people used words in a witty and poetic way to show they have an elevated social class, good background, and superior intellect. Prose was used to illustrate something different is happening in parts of the play. Passages in Othello demonstrated that Shakespeare used prose when character(s) is with an unsound mind, of a lower social class, or when character(s) speak of evil and vulgar ideas. This essay will study these attributes of the use of prose in the play Othello.
             Evidence gathered from characters Othello and Cassio confirmed that, the reason a person uses prose is possibly resulted from possessing an unsound mind. Blank verse is a form of speech where the individual speaking must maintain high degree of thinking to carefully form phrases with the right grouping and pronunciation of the words, whereas a person with a troubled mind would not bother of doing. Othello was portrayed as a confident and controlling character in the beginning of the play. He was able to maintain control of any situations he ran into. But his mind was eventually plagued by Iago's tainted luring. He became fanatical about his suspicions of being cuckolded by his most beloved Desdemonda. With that in mind, he was not able to speak in blank verse as usual...