The creature, confused as to his purpose of existence, finally decides that "evil henceforth became my good" (Shelley 159). This is the moment when the final transition from good to evil begins. According to Bedford's Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms, British writers of the Romantic era, such as Mary Shelley and John Milton, “embraced primitivism which postulates that people are good by nature but corrupted by civilization” (Bedford Glossary 448) . This implies that the creature was created evil due to the De Lacey family's observance and discovery of Paradise Lost. The monster continued to share his insight, and Shelley referred directly to Paradise Lost when the creature expressed: "I cannot believe that I am he whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and majesty of goodness. But it is like this" also like this: the fallen angel becomes an evil devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and companions in his desolation