Although God commands Adam and Eve to reproduce, God wants them to reproduce by his own means, without challenging his hierarchy and where he has placed his creatures in the landscape. However, this is difficult for creatures who have the ability to “[grow], perceive, and reason” (Milton 9.113). Free will, a characteristic of God, is perverted by Satan. Since Satan is the first to corrupt God's gift or curse of free will, he becomes an artistic model to follow. The same fall, just with different variables, happens to Adam and Eve. Through Satan's tremendous fall, Satan understands the logic of God's creation. Satan manipulates these elements to not only cause Adam and Eve to follow his pattern and constantly enter the cycle of reproducing sin and death until Jesus intervenes, but also to replicate himself in God's work, manipulating and distorting it from the principles that God has. imposed as its characteristic