socrates is usually the main person in plato's dialogues. usually, socrates talks with people about their ideas, and tries to see if they believe anything that is illogical. other people in the stories often become angry with socrates because of this. people who study plato argue about whether socrates really said the same things that plato makes him say, or whether plato just used socrates as a character, to make the ideas he was talking about seem more important.