In Plato and Phaedrus discussion of rhetoric several questions arose for me. The first one being; when is a speech well written and delivered, and when is it not? I believe a well written speech takes time to develop. One must do the research necessary to develop a knowledgeable speech that many can understand and relate to. Once this is done the author has the potential to deliver a well constructed speech to his or her audience. The second question I had was, where is deception most likely to occur? Socrates and Phaedrus go into detail about what they thought of deception. is it easier to deceive one on small matters or changes. Or are larger matters and topics easier to make one believe. Socrates helps answers this when he states “If you are to deceive someone else and to avoid deception yourself, you must know precisely the respects in which things are similar and dissimilar.” I believe what Socrates was trying to say was that you need knowledge of a subject you wish to manipulate so you can change the truths as little as possible. Therefore, it is easier to get away with making small changes to subjects  than the larger issues that are more complicated to alternate.