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Oh, Renfield. Such a sweet, gentle lunatic who just wants to be loved and...eat flies...


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00:00

Thank you We sneak in Dracula Renfield Alas shmoop Who

00:14

is renfield renfield and and why is he obsessed with

00:18

the idea of becoming a vampire Renfield is one of

00:22

my favorite characters and dracula he's a very i don't

00:26

know I think he's a very sweet lunatic he's in

00:29

john seward's insane asylum I think he was formerly a

00:32

lawyer Maybe i don't say this silent but he's being

00:37

possessed by dracula and he has these weird this weird

00:41

thing with eating live creatures in the same way that

00:44

vampires vamp on humans No he he's eating sort of

00:50

progressively larger creatures in the food chain starting with flies

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and then he wants a kitty and isn't given a

00:57

kitty And he's important to the crew of light in

01:04

particular to john sewer because he's being possessed by dracula

01:07

So he has this weird like he's like a weird

01:08

index for what's up with dracula He's waiting for his

01:14

he's waiting for his lord and master to come back

01:18

Eventually he dies at the hands of his lord and

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master dracula But yeah ironically becomes a snap But he's

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a really sweet figure Who is renfield And why is 00:01:33.109 --> [endTime] he obsessed with becoming a vampire

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