Dracula's Pitiful Servant & Betrayer Renfield - A Tale of Redemption

Why he merits pity

Few characters have it as bad in the novel of Dracula by Bram Stoker than Renfield, with the man one who in another life was educated, cultivated and respectable. The key word is ‘was’, as he has since become a pitiable figure, one who at some point in time fell into the thrall of Dracula.

Renfield once put away in Siward’s asylum begins to eat spiders, …