As one analyzes the "Apology" by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most people would agree with Socrates when he claims that "...the unexamined life is not worth living...". From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to the fact most of us in society have chosen to live the "unexamined life" for centuries and as a result we live in a society where one has to live segregated from our freewill as human beings as well as a society that is restrained by rules and other types of social "walls". When one reads and is able to contrast Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" it clearly shows a great and perhaps the most clear example of the point that Socrates was attempting to make to the jury, in the "Apology". For example in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", Plato makes the reader visualize a cave where there are a great number of prisoners who are restrained and are faced staring at the wall where all they can see is shadow movements that are projected from a fire that is placed right behind these prisoners, and this fire is displaying false images from what appears to be images of the outside world. As the story proceeds, one of the prisoners manages to escape and as he is able to escape the cave and he walks outside into the "real" world and is able to see a completely different view of the real world and this prisoner is able to see a completely different image of the outside world, different from the images that the shadows inside the cave were exposing to the prisoners. When the escaped prisoner decides to go into the cave and attempts to explain to the other prisoners about what is really occurring in the outside world, the other prisoners decide to gain up on the "liberated" prisoner, because they were not prepared to see reality for what it really is, so they decided to chose to somewh...