FREE ESSAY ON THE APOLOGY

THE APOLOGY

The Apology
In The Apology by Plato, Socrates was giving his testimony before he was forced to commit
suicide. He was trying to prove that death is better than living without one's beliefs.
He believed that he was innocent, going to a better place, and he was going to die
anyway. 
Socrates was an old man, in his seventies and not going to live much longer. He knew this
and said it was okay if he died then because he was going to die anyway. He told the
people of Athens that his suicide would eventually come back to haunt them because later
people would see him as a wise man and they would say you people killed him. If they
would just let him die of natural causes they would be better off. Socrates knew this and
he told them so. 
Socrates believed he was innocent of any wrong doings. He did not do anything wrong and
so he was not worried about people thinking he was a guilty person. He said to the people
who condemned him that he was not going to beg for his life because he was above that. He
knew he was innocent and he did not feel that lowering himself to that level would do any
good anyway. 
Socrates was not scared of dying. He was actually looking forward to it. He knew that he
was going to a better place than where he lived then. He told the people he would ask the
great heroes of the past the questions that he wanted answered his whole life. He was
happy about being able to live for eternity in heaven with past people like, Odysseus or
Sisyphus. 
In the end Socrates accepted his fate. He knew he was going to a better place, innocent
and would die soon anyway and he was not scared of it. In the end Socrates comes to the
conclusion that death was a better thing than having to live without his beliefs.