Milton describes Satan as a lovable and likable character that we can identify with, for a man of principle and a godly man because he does this "I am the Alpha and the Omega" , the first and the last.” Revelation 1:8 in the King James Version John Milton's Paradise Lost is a poetic amalgam of vice and virtue, it is an epic that navigates the dangers of right, of the wrong and the gray area in which human beings find themselves. An epic inherently conflictual in its essence deriving from the writer and the environment around him. It delves into the evil orchestrated by Satan and the divine directly from God himself. Milton delves into Adam and Eve and the exodus from Eden, he creates a character within Satan who is so narcissistic, so irreverent and so immoral all the while without malice and not sadistic in his truest form. A character whose only transgression is a belief system that goes against his creator, the belief that he is neither good nor bad but who pursues his own deadly sins, actually transferring them to the moderately innocent Eve and by extension Adam. “The Infernal Serpent. It was he whose cunning, moved by envy and revenge, deceived the mother of the human race, when her pride expelled him from heaven with all his host of rebel angels, with whose help he aspired to rise in glory above his equal he was confident that he would equal the Almighty if he stood and with amnitary aim against the throne and monarchy of God” PG4 34 Although Satan is the archetype of evil, he is twisted if not at least vocally conflicted about his place in the interior of the kingdom of heaven and the role that God has over Satan. Satan is internally conflicted, finds himself unsubmissive to God, delights in his own narcissism, finds pleasure in the de… concept that we have invariably fought for and died for on many levels. Satan journeys through loss and inner conflict. He opposes the status quo and its establishment; he allegorically crosses a threshold to create his ultimate goal. Even when he gets hit he is relentless and doesn't give up. Ultimately he bypasses his oppressor (god) and creates his own existence and realism, tempts Eve and by extension Adam. Satan is the first and truest form of being in all of Milton's epic that we relate to because he is vain, we have all been angry, jealous, greedy, vain and in Adams' case in "love" Satan is the first and most important character to accept these feelings. These feelings, his aspirations and his actions are the closest and the reason why we can all identify with Satan as an antihero, the menacing vigilante.