Ben Jonson's Volpone is heavily engaged with the evolving town setting in early 17th century London, where international trade, migration and commercial unrest played a vital role in shape and reshape people's attitudes towards life. This changing urban landscape attracts moral decay in individuals and corruption in institutions. Fraud, deception, greed, greed and selfishness become the means of individual existence in the extremely ruthless money-producing society. For the Jonsons of comedy, vocal supremacy includes devising plots to deceive the wealth maniac. The linguistic interpretation of the characters presented a cohesive and lacy development by Volpone, filled with a complicated assortment of conspiracies on the part of the con artists (Freitas1). Jonson provides the audience's mind with a pastiche of artistically embroidered microplots to intensify and elevate the social atmosphere of the play and to also embody the seditions of a morally decaying society. Individuals are shaped by the social world. There is a close connection between individuals and social structures: the nature of the individual's relationship to the larger social system, the ways in which behavior is influenced by social experiences, the genesis of the individual's social composition (Turiel 5). Individuals develop conceptual systems to understand and transform the social world. Therefore, the role that the materialistic world usually plays on individuals; episodes of change in the social status of the community; and individuals' attitudes towards the perception of morality are considered to be analyzed in the article. During the early seventeenth century the social atmosphere of London was transforming into a new status... middle of paper...on . Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004. 142-170. Rpt. In Literary Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. vol. 158. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Network. November 2, 2012.Jonson, Ben. Volpone, or The Fox. Ed. Brian Parker. New York: Manchester UP, 1999. Stock, Angela and Anne-Julia Zwierlein. "Our scene is London..." Tracing early modern London: new essays on the comedy of the Jacobean city. Ed. Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock and Anne-Julia Zwierlein. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Sydney, Philip. "The Defense of Poetry", English Essays: From Sidney to Macaulay. The Harvard Classics. New York: P. F. Collier & Sons, 1909–14.Turiel, E. The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1983.Walker, Hugh. English satire and satirists. New York: Octagon Books, 1972.