3, 12)? Adam replies, "the women whom thou gavest to be with me" made him eat from the tree, and Eve then proceeds to blame the serpent for beguiling her (Ch. 3, 13). Who can Satan blame? God. In Book I of Paradise Lost, Satan plays an interesting role that does not exist in Genesis so as to inquire further on the source of Man's first disobedience. Milton brings us before the Fall of Man to the Fall of Satan. The parallel between the two disobediences forces the reader to imagine that Satan ergo becomes a mirror image of Man. Satan was once a beloved Archangel who questioned and even rebelled against God's ultimate authority. He finds himself thrown down from Heaven into the "place of utter darkness, fitliest call'd Chaos" (I, Introduction). He is left in Hell with his Angels to lie in the Abyss of a burning Lake. Looking at the fallen Satan, we see that his emotions are very human: "Envy" and "Revenge" (I, 6) are created out of his guilt, woe, confusion and pain from the mistake he made in Heaven. Satan speaks to his Angels and brings up a point that can be directly linked to Adam and Eve: he says, "All is not lost; the unconquerable Will.never to submit or yield" (I, 106-7). Satan asks, if God brought threw us down as a punishment, why did he keep our Will intact? Although their "Glory extinct, and happy state/Here swallow'd up in endless misery," "the mind and spirit remains/Invincible, and vigour soon returns" (I, 139-41). When Adam and Eve take from the Tree of Knowledge which they were told would cause their Death, not only does God not kill them instantly but he also keeps their free will and natural desire in tact. With nothing really changed – Satan is still evil as he was in Heaven and Adam and Eve are still desiring and curious as ever – it appears that there is an underlying message that translated into the simple explanation of predestination.