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Essay / Role of Creation in Paradise Lost - 2358
Even though God commands Adam and Eve to reproduce, God wants them to reproduce through his means, not questioning his hierarchy and where he placed his creatures in the landscape. However, this is difficult for creatures that have the capacity to “[grow], to feel, and to 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, with varying variables, happens to Adam and Eve. Thanks to the tremendous fall of Satan, he understands the logic of God's creation. Satan manipulates these elements not only to cause Adam and Eve to follow his pattern and enter into the cycle of constant reproduction of sin and death until Jesus intervenes, but he also reproduces himself in the work of God, manipulating it and perverting it from the principles that God has defined. imposed as characteristics of its