Renfield+(2)

​ R. M. Renfield by Leann Gavlik, Brad Clark, and Justin Bush  R. M. Renfield, aetat 59. Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accompished finish, aa possibly dengerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. In selfish men, caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves. What I think of n this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paprmount, and only acident or a series of accidents can balance it. - From Dr. John Seward's journal R. M. Renfield is a patient who's recently been brought into Dr. Seward's care. Renfield displays an unusual madness, obsessed with the consumption of life. He seems to believe he can draw strength from this, and that the more lives he can consume, the more strength he'll gain. To this end, he keeps animals flies, which he feeds to spiders, which he feeds to sparrows, which he would like, more than anything, to feed to a cat. He would like very much for Dr. Seward to get him a cat. In many movie adaptations, Renfield got this way through contact with the Count he was sent to Transylvania before Jonathan, and came back like this. In the book, it isn't revealed why he has these obsessions. Dracula's arrival drives him further into his madness, and the Count uses the poor man to his own ends. Renfield's lucidity shifts back and forth unpredictably. Sometimes, he's calm, and much like what he must have been before being brought to the asylum he's not an idiot. Sometimes, he's violent and manic, and sometimes he's hysterical. Even without Dracula's influence, he's not sane, but he's trying. In the story, Renfield becomes a gage for Dracula's own activity, which is a very archetypally rattish thing to be - sailors watch for rats fleeing their ship, and scientists watch rats for medical research. A lab rat and Renfield is Jack's lab rat doesn't benefit from this scrutiny. Despite all the forced service lab rats have done for humankind, they're still seen as disgusting, disease carrying vermin. Even wild rats, though they can carry disease, and do gladly take whatever they want from us, are more than what they seem, if anyone bothers to look. [|**Renfeilds Book**] Renfeild Has his own book! Renfield-about answers.com-renfield **Who is Renfeild?** These three links are links to tell who Renfield really is.



An illustration of Renfield with is habbits of eating insects.

Renfield is considered a loner. Very dark and misterious.

Dwight Frye as Renfield during the 1931 movie of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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A "music video" based on Renfield. Name: I'm really not insane. Author is Unknown

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Renfield's scene from Dracula while in the asylum. media type="youtube" key="iNX4nLvIP0Q" height="385" width="480"

This shows how "insane" Refield is.

media type="youtube" key="zjv4IqXUTZM" height="385" width="480" align="center" A clip from the 1931 film, Dracula, showing Renfield's story