The creature, confused as to the purpose of his existence, ultimately decides that "evil has now become my good" (Shelley 159). This is when the final transition from good to evil begins. According to the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms, British writers of the Romantic era, for example Mary Shelley and John Milton, "embraced primitivism which posits 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 directly referenced Paradise Lost when the creature expressed, "I cannot believe that I am the one whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of beauty and majesty of goodness. even so: the fallen angel becomes an evil devil. Yet even this enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation. » (Shelley ;