![]() Seward diagnoses him as a " zoophagous maniac", or carnivorous madman. He also changes his ideas to accommodate Mina Harker by quickly eating all flies and stating that it was an old habit. When denied a cat to accommodate the birds, he eats the birds himself. He starts with flies, the death's-head moth, then develops a scheme of feeding the flies to spiders, and the spiders to birds, in order to accumulate more and more life. Later Renfield's own testimony reveals that Dracula would send him insects, which he begins consuming. He suffers from delusions which compel him to eat living creatures in the hope of obtaining their life-force for himself. Renfield is an inmate at the lunatic asylum overseen by Dr. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and onlyĪccident or a series of accidents can balance it. What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. In selfish men, caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish, a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out. In the various film adaptations of the novel, he has been portrayed by actors such as Alexander Granach, Dwight Frye, Klaus Kinski, Tom Waits, Peter MacNicol, and Nicholas Hoult.Ī description of Renfield from the novel: Throughout the novel, he resides in an asylum, where he is treated by Dr. He is Count Dracula's deranged, fanatically devoted servant and familiar, helping him in his plan to turn Mina Harker into a vampire in return for a continuous supply of insects to consume and the promise of immortality. Renfield is a fictional character who appears in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. The Fly Patient, The Fly Man, The Zoophagous Patient Samuel Barnett ( Penny Dreadful, 2014 TV series) Peter MacNicol ( Dracula: Dead and Loving It) Tom Waits ( Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992 film) Roland Topor ( Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979 film) Jack Shepherd ( Count Dracula, 1977 TV film) Pablo Álvarez Rubio ( Drácula, 1931 Spanish-language film) Dwight Frye as Renfield in Dracula (1931)Īlexander Granach ( Nosferatu, 1922 silent film)ĭwight Frye ( Dracula, 1931 English-language film)
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