According to the monster, “It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate. … I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.” (199). In the wilderness this infantile monster is left alone to discover the world on his own. Like a child, he enjoys the beauty of nature, the blue sky, and the singing birds. However, when he tries to partake in the surrounding scenery, he himself is frightened by his own nature and submits into silence. Like Victor, the monster finds an interest in the science of objects such as when he discovered fire for the first time. Although like all creatures they must find a means for survival, which unfortunately for the monster caused him to abandon his shelter and newly discovered fire to go search for a place with better resources. While searching for another place to take shelter in the monster stumbles across a village, with frightened people who attacked because of his deformed features and beat him, which caused the monster to flee in