It's easy to miss in everything that happens in today's entry, but on the basis of what we're told, Renfield dies alone, uncomforted, lying on the floor of his room in a pool of his own blood. There's no indication that he receives any palliative care; they don't even move him on to the bed to die.
I CAN'T DRAW MEN SORRY! I tried giving Quincey a mustache and 5 o'clock shadow but it looked so bad in this lineart.
It also all looks bad in general but a formal comic would take months! Aaaaah I'm so embarrassed to submit something so hideous but I had to get Quincey out of my mind.
what a heroically tragic ending for Renfield!
Renfield spent the whole novel yearning to meet Dracula, to be made into a vampire, so he may have eternal life by drinking blood...
But when he finally meets Dracula, he sacrifices his dream of vampirism and gives up his life and his blood to defend Mina, the one person who showed him the barest crumbs of human kindness...
there's a lot going on in today's entry, but this alone has got me like:
IT'S THE BOOK OF RUTH JONATHAN IS QUOTING FROM THE BOOK OF RUTH
Jonathan Harker to Mina Murray Harker (Dracula, Oct 3): "May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"
Ruth to Naomi (Ruth 1:16-17): "Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may God do to me and more if even death separates between me and you”
I can't stop thinking about how horribly, needlessly cruel dracula's attack on renfield was. like, there was never any hope of saving renfield’s life after the attack, but it was such a conscious decision on dracula's part to leave him there to linger and suffer for who knows how long instead of just killing him on the spot. it's the exact same need to torment his victims for as long as possible that allowed jonathan to escape - and the result is the same! jonathan lived to tell the tale and reveal dracula's plans to the rest of the squad, and renfield lived just long enough to report the attacks on mina. dracula in his hubris cannot resist taking that little extra effort to terrorise people, as he believes them all to be as powerless and isolated as the villagers he used to throw to the wolves