Renfield!!!!

Renfield, my character is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
Renfield is Dracula's "puppet" through most of the play.

Renfield is a "poor" lunatic from Dr. Seward's asylum.
He is a "paranoid schizophrenic with alternating homicidal and suicidal phases..."

In the play, he is known for eating living creatures, starting with flies, then spiders, then birds. He starts getting a taste for living creatures after his encounter with Count Dracula. The resultant belief that he can extend his life by draining the life of others-(like a vampire)- (this can link back to the research we did a few weeks ago about vampire myths. Lochhead could have got this idea of "external life" from Elizabeth Bathory's belief of killing virgins to keep herself young and beautiful forever).

Even though you don't see Renfield as a sane person in the play, I know he was a lawyer. I'm not entirely sure how Dracula managed to drive him mad, but my theory is that Renfield was always scared of death. So I think Dracula used this against him, and convinced him that by eating living things, it will give him life, that is why in act 1 scene 2 when he eats the fly he says "it's fat with life, strong life and gives life to me", so I believe Dracula somehow made him believe that. Lochhead could of got the idea of eating living things giving you external life from Elizabeth Bathory's theory, which is explained up above.