Plato Assertion Analysis

    In Plato's rhetorical question, he asserts that he is trying to make people begin to question life and how life affects people. Plato raises the question of how we perceive reality, whether we are living it through being asleep and dreaming or actually being awake and living reality as it is happening. His goal of making us think this way is to get people to begin to question life in order to learn more from it.
    In order to prove his assertion, Plato uses paradox and rhetorical questioning. The very question Plato asked is a paradox because he could be right and he could also be wrong at the same time. Both answers would work because nobody knows the true nature of life. The question he used is also a rhetorical question because it wasn't asked to obtain an answer, it was asked to make people think and question life.