Socrates was sentenced to death by hemlock after being convicted of impiety and corrupting the youth through his beliefs. Socrates having a philosopher state of mind, would basically go around and ask a numerous of questions to random citizens with the hopes of possibly embarrassing them with their thoughts. Socrates wanted to make people realize that they just might not know what they claim to know. People then started not liking this man. People started believing that Socrates was an atheism who was teaching the youth about the inexistence of the gods most people in the town believed in and had faith in. What I found interesting was the gadfly metaphor Socrates used in his defense. Socrates had a belief that his investigations were a divine
