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Dracula Part 1: Course Introduction
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Readers may be already be familiar with Dracula, but what about the mathematician and author, Bram Stoker? And yes, he graduated with a degree in m...

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Dracula Part 2: Vlad the Impaler
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Vlad the Impaler was an appropriately named guy, until he went on tropical vacations. Then, he went by Vlad the Imtanner. For some facts that are a...

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Dracula Part 3: The Legend
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Looks, wealth, and a super cool castle to live in… Well...maybe not live in, if you happened to be Dracula. But for the most part, this guy had...

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Dracula Part 13: Renfield 220 Views


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


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Thank you We sneak in Dracula Renfield Alas shmoop Who

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is renfield renfield and and why is he obsessed with

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the idea of becoming a vampire Renfield is one of

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

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

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

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

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possessed by dracula and he has these weird this weird

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thing with eating live creatures in the same way that

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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