Renfield

Question 1

Renfield

Answer 1

• patient of Dr Seward in the mental asylum near Carfax
• Dracula appears to be the root cause of his madness - Seward studies him and is unable to figure out why he is so obsessed with peculiar creatures

Question 2

‘I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one.’

Answer 2

• Seward sees him as almost soul-less
• lack of empathy - shows no care for his defiling of animals - birds, spiders, flies, cats etc

Question 3

‘Talking elemental philosophy’
‘She must have some rare gift of power’

Answer 3

• chapter 18 - Mina goes to visit renfield
• Seward notes how in Mina’s presence, Renfield is much more refined + human like - also alludes to Mina as the idyllic woman - her soft nature sparks a covert humanity in renfield

Question 4

‘By consuming a multitude of living things, no matter how low in the scale of creation, one might indefinitely prolong life’

Answer 4

• renfield reveals why he eats animals - but also reflects that this belief was futile - he stresses how this delusion led to him trying to take Dr Seward’s life

Question 5

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Question 6

‘Licking it like a dog’

Answer 6

• chapter 11 - Seward gets cut by renfield and describes Renfield’s unusual behaviour - he licks the blood off the floor