The Strepsiades, cunning and naive at the same time, seeks justice through injustice, seeks ways to deceive from knowledge, hopes for truth to conquer lies. And when he himself fails, he believes that his son will fulfill his expectations, but in the end he reaps what he sowed: injustice. Aristophanes satirizes the cunning of his fellow citizens, the decline of the ancient gods, the philosophy of Socrates, and through the conflict of Justice with Unjust Reason, he reminds us how weak humans can be in the face of false promises.