Based on your reading of The Republic, is Socrates guilty or not guilty of the crimes he is accused of? You may choose to focus on one or both of the crimes he was accused of. If you write on piety you MUST define piety at the beginning of your essay.Your paper is supposed to be an interpretation of some aspect of the work(s): in other words, an argument concerning some aspect of the work based on analysis of relevant textual evidence. Your paper is not supposed to be a summary of the work, a statement of your opinion about the work, or a discussion of its historical significance or relevance. Frame your paper as an investigation of why and how the author makes the argument he or she does rather than simply saying what is said. Turn your topic into an argument.