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The Alchemist as a Comedy of Humors; Merits and Limitations

Muhammad Anwar
Fellow of M Phil (English Literature), University of Karachi, Pakistan
Email: [email protected]

Fayyaz Ahmad1
Fellow of MS (Behavioural Sciences), NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
Email: [email protected]

Abstract:
In the prologue to The Alchemist, Jonson points out that the stage of the time is being fed
by manners which have now come to be called humours. He mentions the whore, the bawd, the
pimp, and the impostor as persons representing some of the humours. Jonson‟s comedies were
written according to a prescription which has earned them the label, comedy of humours. The
humours of which a man‟s body was supposedly compounded, according to their relative
predominance, determined his disposition - choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, or sanguine. The
aim of this paper is to analyze the play as a comedy of humors and its merits and limitations as a
comedy of humors. The paper concludes that the play has certain merits but it also has
limitations the biggest of which is the lack of development in the characters.

Keywords: Comedy of humors, Ben Jonson, character sketch, The Alchemist, etc.

Introduction:
In the prologue to The Alchemist, Jonson points out that the stage of the time is being fed
by manners which have now come to be called humours. He mentions the whore, the bawd, the
pimp, and the impostor as persons representing some of the humour. Jonson‟s comedies were
written according to a prescription which has earned them the label, comedy of humour (Foley,
1949). The humour of which a man‟s body was supposedly compounded, according to their
relative predominance, determined his disposition---choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, or
sanguine (Ahmed, 2021a). Jonson applied the term humour metaphorically to what is now called
a man‟s obsession or his complex. He endowed each of his characters with some particular whim
or affectation, some ludicrous exaggeration of manner, speech, or dress: and he pushed forward
this single odd trait to such an extent that all others might be lost sight of (Arnold, 1965). Every
Man in His Humours is a brisk comedy of character, designed to make “sport with human follies,
not with crimes.” Each of the characters in this play is represented as under the influence of
certain humour or peculiar habit, passion, or affectation, by which he is immediately
distinguished from the rest. In other words, each character has his particular humour, his
prevailing mood or rather his oddity, mental habit or fad (Arnold, 1965). Old Knowell in this
play is excessively worried about his son‟s moral health and his activities: it is the father‟s
humour thus to make himself miserable. There is a merchant, Kitely, whose humour it is to be a
jealous husband. Two young, self-confident and foolish men of fashion exist only to be duped

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(Amir and Ahmad, 2020a; 2020b). An honest, optimistic magistrate has unshakable faith in the
virtues of a cup of wine. Bobadilla‟s humour is to brag about his military prowess and his
military campaigns which, however, are purely imaginary. This device of representing humour
was employed by Jonson not only in the above-namely play but also in his two great comedies,
Volpone and The Alchemist. In Volpone, he studied, not a foible or whim, but a master passion,
which is the passion of greed, as it affects a whole social group. In The Alchemist, he made an
elaborate study of human gullibility, and the humour represented here is also the master-passion
if greed which afflicts each of the dupes in the play. As Jonson points out in the prologue to The
Alchemist, his purpose in representing such humour in his comedies was to make people realize
their own shortcomings, follies, and absurdities and thus to try to cure themselves of these
undesirable humour. His comedies were “fair correctives” which aimed at curing people of their
follies and absurdities by making their victims laugh at them (Donaldson, 1997). In the prologue,
Jonson declares the aim of his comic art as promoting human welfare human betterment. At the
same time, he shows his awareness that the tendency towards folly and evil is so strong in human
nature that comic laughter can succeed only to a limited extent in checking it. The audience
would laugh at the follies and absurdities represented by the various characters, but very few in
the audience would find those follies and absurdities as existent in themselves (Amir and
Ahmad, 2020a; 2020b).

One Particular Humour, Emphasized in “Volpone” and in “The Alchemist:”

In Every Man in His Humour, Jonson deals with a variety of humour; but in his greatest
plays, Volpone and The Alchemist, he concentrates on one humour which is avarice, or greed for
money and gain. This is the passion which dominates all the characters. This is not surprising
because the period during which Jonson lived and wrote his comedies was one rapid social
change, when London was beginning to become the commercial capital of Europe, and when
enormous fortunes were being made and lost in trade and commercial enterprise. It is no accident
that the world of the period for financial speculation was one which appears often in the play in
the context of alchemy, that word is “projection” (Ahmed, 2021a) Nor is it an accident that
Subtle, Face and Dol repeatedly refer to themselves as a business enterprise, the “venture
tripartite,” for which there exists a formal agreement among the three of them (Ahmed, 2021a).

The Humour of Avarice or Greed in the Various Characters: Dapper:

An obsessive desire for easy money is common to all Subtle‟s clients. The clients are so
varied as to show in cross-section a society led by greed to folly and loss. The nobleman, the
countryman, the little clerk, the churchman, the small shopkeeper: Jonson‟s net is cast widely
enough over society to include all these. What might have been a parade of miscellaneous vices,
gains unity and purpose from the motive which is common to all of them: an obsession with
money (Ahmed, 2021b). In this way, the play depicts a whole society, ruthlessly individualistic
and acquisitive, and ultimately deluded and impoverished by its own false values
(Dykeman, 1988). The first client who appears in the play is Dapper who is, by profession, a
lawyer‟s clerk but who is more interested in making money through gambling. Indeed, he wishes
to give up his real profession and become a whole-time gambler (Akhtar, 2019).
He has come to the alchemist to be provided with a “familiar” or an attendant spirit who
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promises to provide him with the required familiar who would make Dapper win all the money at
gambling-parties so that all the other contestants would be reduced to bankruptcy. He then tells
Dapper that Dapper is a nephew of the Queen of Fairies who would surly bless Dapper with
prosperity (Amir and Aurangzeb, 2020). When Face asks Subtle if Dapper would win at cards,
Subtle replies that Dapper would win so much money that people would think that the spirits of
the dead alchemists, Holland and Isaac, had begun to live once more in Dapper. Dapper feels
convinced by Subtle‟s and Face‟s assurances and goes home in order to sharpen his senses with
the use of vinegar, as directed. Then he comes back, and this time he allows himself to be
blindfolded, gagged and stowed away in the toilet in the hope that he would be granted a
personal interview with the Queen of Fairies. Ultimately an interview between Dapper and the
Queen of Fairies2 is certainly arranged. In the process Dapper is robbed of whatever he had got:
and in the end, he finds that he has gained nothing at all (Akhtar, 2019).

The humour of Avarice in Drugger:

The second client is Drugger who, by profession, is a tobacconist. He wants commercial
prosperity, and he wants to expand his business. He too is given a formula for attaining success
in his commercial enterprises, and he is also provided with a “thriving sign” because Subtle
pretends not only to be an alchemist but also a palmist, an astrologer, and a physiognomist.
Drugger too is convinced of the efficacy of the methods proposed by Subtle to ensure Drugger‟s
prosperity. Drugger not only gives money to Subtle but also brings a certain quantity of his best
tobacco and costly damask suit.

The Humour of Avarice in the Anabaptists:

Then there are the Anabaptists, Ananias and Tribulation. Ananias is certainly skeptical
about Subtle‟s powers to produce the philosopher‟s stone, but the brethren at Amsterdam are
fully convinced of Subtle‟s capacity to provide the philosopher‟s stone to them. Tribulation fully
represents those brethren, and he tries to convince his colleague, Ananias, also of the miraculous
powers of Subtle (Akhtar, 2019). The two Anabaptists then agree to pay some additional money
to Subtle for providing them with the philosopher‟s stone which would place so much wealth at
the disposal of the brethren at Amsterdam that they would be able to buy countries, to enlist
armies to fight against their enemies, and extend the influence of their sect over large areas. They
also agree to buy what Subtle describes as the “orphans‟ goods” but which are actually the
metallic articles sent by Mammon to Subtle‟s establishment to be converted into gold. The
Anabaptists further show their greed by agreeing to accept from Subtle counterfeit dollars. They
recognize the distinction between the “coining” of dollars and the “casting” of dollars. They
admit that, while the coining of dollars is unlawful, the casting of dollars is a lawful activity. It is
thus that the truth is twisted and distorted in the service of greed (Arnold, 1965; Ahmed, 2021b).

The Humour of Avarice in Sir Epicure Mammon:

Sir Epicure Mammon is another of the victims of the conspirators.3 This man had been
given a promise that the philosopher‟s stone would be placed in his hands on a particular day.
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Subtle had told him, just as he had told the Anabaptists that he had already commenced the
alchemical process which would yield the philosopher‟s stone or the elixir which is to make its
possessor fabulously rich. On the appointed day, Mammon arrives at Subtle‟s establishment.
Subtle knows the aims and purposes which Mammon has been harbouring in his mind. Subtle
tells Dol that it is Mammon‟s aim to make people rich through the philosopher‟s stone and also
to cure the sufferers of all their diseases. Mammon himself tells his friend Surly that the house,
which they are going to enter, is Novo Orbe 4 (Akhtar, 2019). He describes this house is rich in
Peru, and days that inside are the golden mines as rich as those which belonged to Solomon in
ancient times. He then becomes eloquent describing the virtues of the philosopher‟s stone which
will not only bring wealth to its possessor but which can also confer honour, love, respect, and
long life upon a man. He then speaks of the luxurious life which he would be able to lead on the
basis of the wealth he would acquire through the philosopher‟s stone. He says that he would
make Surly also a rich man. “Be rich”, says Mammon to Surly, “This day thou shalt have ingots”
(Amir and Aurangzeb, 2020). With unlimited money at his disposal, Mammon would eat the
most expensive foods served in plates of gold, studded and embellished with the precious stone
of various colours (Akhtar, 2019). The foods served to him would include carps, dormice,
camels‟ heels, oiled mushrooms, and the teats of a fat pregnant sow; and these foods would be
served in dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded with emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and
rubies. Mammon readily pays ten pounds more to Face when he is told that some of the materials
relating to the alchemical process have been damaged. Finally, however, he gets nothing from
the conspirators. On the contrary, he is told that the collapse of the alchemical process is due
solely to his own sinfulness (Ahmed, 2021b).

Greed in Surly’s and in Lovewit’s Natures:

Even Surly, who is otherwise a very honest man, is not completely free from the taint of
greed. He would like to marry Dame Pliant, and his chief reason for wanting to marry her is that
she is a rich woman who would make his fortune. Lovewit, who appears in the play towards the
close, is also found to be a greedy man. We expected him to take severe action not only against
the conspirators who have come from outside but also against his own butler, Jeremy, who has
been wearing many disguises and who has proved to be as big a cheat as the other two. But
Lovewit joins hands with Face when Face offers Dame Pliant to him in marriage (Akhtar, 2019).
In his last speech, Lovewit frankly admits that he has departed from the requirements of justice
by not taking any action against his butler because the butler has not only shown wit but has
helped his master‟s fortune. In other words, the money, which Dame Pliant was to bring as her
dowry, proved to be an irresistible lure for Lovewit (Ahmed, 2021b).

The Humour of Greed in the Three Conspirators:

Then there are the conspirators themselves. They are, of course, the greediest of all the
characters in the play. It is their greed which serves as the basis for their setting up a laboratory
and pretending that the alchemical process to manufacture the philosopher‟s stone has been
commenced. Face goes about in search of victims and is able to rope in men like Dapper and
Drugger (Akhtar, 2019). Subtle, who is well-versed in the lore of alchemy and who has got all

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the technical terms of alchemy on his finger-tips, never fails to impress his clients with his
supposed powers, Dol is an active collaborator in the bog fraud. The entire project has been
undertaken by these three cheats with the sole object of acquiring as much money as they
possibly can (Amir and Aurangzeb, 2020).

Lust as a Humour:
While avarice or greed is the principal humour depicted in the play, there is also another
humour with which the play deals. The character of Mammon is dominated not only by a love of
money but also by his lustful desire for sexual pleasure. In talking to Surly, Mammon not only
describes the expensive foods which he would eat after receiving the philosopher‟s stone but also
the sexual pleasures which he would enjoy. He says that he would sleep in the beds, would
decorate his bed-chamber with erotic pictures, would fill his rooms with mists of perfume, and
would fit a mirror on the walls of his rooms in order to be able to see the reflections of his make
mistresses in them. He declares that he would have “a list of wives and concubines equal with
Solomon who had the stone” which Mammon himself is also going to have. By means of the
elixir, Mammon his back as tough as was the back of Hercules, in order to be able to have sexual
bouts with fifty women in the course of one night. Wherever he comes to know of a wealthy
citizen or rich lawyer, he would send a thousand pounds to him, inviting him to provide his wife
to Mammon (Akhtar, 2019).
Mammon says that he would not engage any professional pimps but would make use of
fathers and mothers to provide to him their daughters. Indeed, mammon sees visions of endless
sexual pleasure. In other words, lust is another humour which possesses Mammon. As soon as
Mammon catches a glimpse of Dol, he is fascinated by her and would like to have her
immediately as his bed-partner. He bribes Face, urging him to provide Dol to him for his sexual
pleasure. When she actually appears before him, he begins to pay glowing compliments to her
beauty and charm (Amir and Aurangzeb, 2020). Drugger too has another humour, besides his
greed. Drugger would like to marry the widow, Dame Pliant. Of course, even this desire to marry
the widow is based chiefly on his greed because the widow is a rich woman (Ahmed, 2021b).

Kastril’s Humour: To Learn City Manners:

The only character who is not obsessed with the humour of greed or lust is Kastril. This
young man from the countryside has different humour altogether. He has come to the city in
order to acquire city manners and to become a sophisticated man (Amir and Ahmad, 2020a;
2020b). He is especially interested in learning the art of quarrelling which in those days consisted
of carrying a dispute far enough and retreating from it if there was a serious danger to a person‟s
physical safety. Kastril wants to learn this art, and then practice it in the countryside where he
has his home. Indeed, he is able to learn the art of quarrelling quite successfully because it is
chiefly he who drives away Surly when Surly becomes a menace to Subtle‟s establishment
(Akhtar, 2019).

The Ulterior Aims of the Characters:

The characters in this play show obsessive greed for money. But money is not an end in
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things which it can buy. Jonson differentiates his characters by giving them different ulterior
aims. Mammon wants luxury, but at the same time, he shows a generosity of mind because one
of his aims is to distribute freely the elixir as a medicine to cure people‟s diseases, and he also
thinks of establishing hospitals and other institutions of public welfare. In other words, he is not
only a money-worshipper, an epicure, and a sensualist, but also a philanthropist. The Anabaptists
want money as a means to power (Greenhill, 1993; Akhtar, 2019). They would like to become
“temporal lords.” Kastril and Dapper are social climbers. Dapper would like to give up his
profession in order to become a full-time young man about town. Kastril does not explicitly seek
money through he is very conscious of its importance. He boasts of his income of fifteen
hundred pounds a year, and he would like his sister not to marry anybody below the status of a
knight. Draggers is the meanest of all, a penny-pinching petty tradesman who gets sick with
worries about his water-bills and about leaving his house empty on a night (Amir and Ahmad,
2020a; 2020b). Subtle, Face and Dol are distinguished from the dupes by their skill, wit, capacity
to talk in a persuasive manner, and freedom from all illusion, even though they too are driven by
the same desire for wealth. They have a business agreement to cheat others, but this does not
prevent them from cheating one another if the opportunity presents itself (Ahmed, 2021b).

A Limitation and a Merit of the Play:

One limitation of The Alchemist as a comedy of humour is the lack of development in the
characters. As already indicated, there is a vital difference between the manners in which
Shakespeare portrays his characters and the manner in which Jonson does so. Shakespeare shows
his characters developing and growing before our eyes, but the characters in Jonson‟s plays are
static (Greenhill, 1993). The characters in The Alchemist remain the same from beginning to end.
If they change at all, they would change after the play has ended before our eyes. Dapper,
Drugger, Mammon, and the Anabaptists might become wiser after their experience with the
rogues and the cheats; but we do not witness this development in the play itself. We can only
guess that these characters might in future show more discretion and more caution in dealing
with people; but throughout the five-act of the play, these men remain the same (Aurangzeb,
2019; Akhtar, 2019). However, this limitation in the portrayal of the characters has its bright side
also. We here find a greater concentration on the portrayal of particular humour. Thus
Mammon‟s two obsessions---one with gold and the other with sexual pleasure----receive such a
great emphasis through his speeches and his actions that he becomes for us an embodiment of
Epicureanism and Mormonism. By virtue of this concentration and this increased emphasis on
his humour, Mammon becomes a memorable character; and he is, indeed, one of the most
famous characters created by Jonson. The same is true of Subtle and Face, both of whom have
elaborately been drawn, and both of whom impress us greatly by their wit, ingenuity, and
inventiveness (Amir and Ahmad, 2020a; 2020b).

Conclusion:
Jonson‟s comedies were written according to a prescription which has earned them the
label, comedy of humour. Jonson applied the term humour metaphorically to what is now called
a man‟s obsession or his complex. He endowed each of his characters with some particular whim
or affectation, some ludicrous exaggeration of manner, speech, or dress: and he pushed forward
this single odd trait to such an extent that all others might be lost sight of. Each of the characters

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in this play is represented as under the influence of certain humour or peculiar habit, passion, or
affectation, by which he is immediately distinguished from the rest. In other words, each
character has his particular humour, his prevailing mood or rather his oddity, mental habit or fad.
In The Alchemist, he made an elaborate study of human gullibility, and the humour represented
here is also the master-passion if greed which afflicts each of the dupes in the play. As Jonson
points out in the prologue to The Alchemist, his purpose in representing such humour in his
comedies was to make people realize their own shortcomings, follies, and absurdities and thus to
try to cure themselves of these undesirable humour. Limitation of The Alchemist as a comedy of
humour, however, is the lack of development in the characters. The characters in Jonson‟s plays
are static. They remain the same from beginning to end. If they change at all, they would change
after the play has ended before our eyes. However, this limitation in the portrayal of the
characters has its bright side also. We here find a greater concentration on the portrayal of
particular humour.

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