Character profile
Renfield in Dracula
Who is Renfield in Dracula? R. M. Renfield, a fifty-nine-year-old patient in Dr. Seward's asylum, possessed of great physical strength and swinging between calm reasoning and violent mania.
Also known as: R. M. Renfield, the lunatic
Who Renfield is
R. M. Renfield, a fifty-nine-year-old patient in Dr. Seward's asylum, possessed of great physical strength and swinging between calm reasoning and violent mania. He catches flies and spiders to eat, convinced that each life he consumes adds to his own.
Appearance
An asylum patient of about fifty-nine, sanguine and heavily built with immense physical strength, morbidly excitable. Unkempt greying hair, a fixed unsettling stare and a sudden shifting between cunning calm and violence. Institutional clothes, dishevelled. Never a genial well-dressed gentleman.
