In her work Frankenstein, Author Mary Shelly perfectly illustrates the human tendency to destroy a resemblance of innocence through the depiction of Frankenstein’s Monster’s first hostile encounter with villagers. In Chapter 11 we find the beginning Monster’s progression in both life and self-consciousness, from his horrid infancy to his current deadly and monstrous adolescence, Here the monster tells of an encounter with villagers, where his bewilderment of his expanding knowledge and subjective universe is immediately overtaken by the fear he now felt of the world after the inhabitants expelled him. One can see that, prior to the attack, the monster saw his new reality with fresh and eager eyes. The monster recounts, “it was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I determined to recommence my travels” (Shelly). The phrase, “allured by the warmth of the sun” signifies how excited the monster felt by seeing an invitation by the sun to act the first moment he awakes. Also, in describing the ground as white, not only can one take it as a description of the time of day at noon, but also an illuminated path that the monster sees to continue traveling. The monster remarks in wonder at the culture the villagers have with the phrase, “How miraculous did this appear” (Shelly)! The monster’s choices of description at this point show a thing that views the world as a mainly optimistic; after the monster’s sudden attack however, we see a noticeable change in tone. When he says, “I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village” (Shelly), the use of “escape” and “refuge” show how at this moment the monster realizes a negative force exists in his universe that sought an end to his being. The paragraph concludes with the monster describing a makeshift shack he builds for himself as “an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain” (Shelly). From the sudden alteration of tone in the Monster’s voice one can see how the Monster’s perception of himself shifts from one of optimism and then to one of sad self-awareness about his circumstance. The monster, whom at this encounter but is a child, quickly loses its innocence of knowing hatred against him in the world exists. In this one finds a better understanding of the Monster’s backstory to show how it took humanity to corrupt him before the world could. It is this mistrust in humans that provides the capability of taking human lives at his present stage. In his case it was not any biological impulse that created the savagery in him, but his inability to become self-realized as an equal being through the villagers created the monster within him.