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act in dishonest way by using the philosopher's stone
to get profit or advantages from the minor characters, who
are the cheated in the play. Therefore, The Alchemist is a
story exposing the duplicities between the cheaters and
the cheated. These thesis is disscuBsed the reasons of
these duplicities happen and what are the consequences of
them to the cheaters and the cheated in the end. In the
play, the cheaters' strong desire to improve their life
stimulates them to do the duplicities towards the cheated,
who are foolish enough to believe in them. Both of them
are involved in the duplicities because all of them have a
hope of sudden riches. Yet, in the end of the play, the
cheaters get nothing as the judgement of their bad con-duct.
Then, the cheated also lose their wealth as the
payment of their foolishness. Therefore, the consequences
of duplicities in The Alchemist as the punishment for the
cheaters and the cheated, which is used to ridicule them
out of their vices and follies.