Analyzing Plato's 'The Republic'

In Plato’s The Republic Socrates seeks to find what the underlying principles of a just society are. By doing this, he virtually created what he thought was a perfect society. It is a utopia where every person has their place, has a future set out for them, and because there is no room for expansion, there is reasonable stability. There are several contradictions and flaws within this contrived society that is supposed to be so seamless, and this seems to stem from the fact that he seems to have forgotten what makes us inherently human—our feelings, aspirations, and desires. Socrates claims difference in aptitude underlies society. With this principle, Socrates asserts that since everyone is good at a particular skill, it would be best
People would realize that this perfect, orderly society they have been living in, is false, and chaos would ensue. What was once a utopian society, would become unstable and crumble. Citizens would realize that the roles they have lived with and abided by their entire lives, are not necessarily the roles they have to live with forever, and they would act accordingly. This conflicts with what Socrates had said previously, about people needing to be educated in order to be able to seamlessly function in a society. He states that education will make people behave humanely to each other, but if this is the case, then why does he feel the need to create another thing to help prevent conflict and
Although he plans to ensure that his community would be unified, he discounts inherent human behaviors. Humans are naturally emotional beings. Even if trained and educated to use reason over desire, as Socrates proposed, it would not hold up in every instance. People are not infallible, and this weakens his plan. In addition, the tendencies of humans, is to seek greater opportunities, and Socrates’ community does not create room for this. Because the room for growth and expansion is oppressed, that would make people question their reality. This questioning would also compromise his idea for a stable community. In theory, the details presented to make up a good community would work, but in actuality, the community Socrates describes in fact, would not work as a stable and unified