Food Chain In Bram Stoker's Dracula

Another form of a food chain in the novel, Dracula, is through Dr. Seward’s patient, Reinfield, who is a living being who shows the food chain in action, consuming life for life himself. Throughout the story, Reinfield is guilty of murder, being classified as a zoöphagous (a life-eating maniac) for taking the lives of many different creatures. When he asks Dr. Seward for a cat, he refuses, but in return, compromises on bird. Dr. Seward donates this bird to his patient in hope for change in his eager ways for life, which may not have happened in his favor. In chapter six, Dr. Seward states in his diary a quote from the attendant who was watching Reinfield at this time, “My belief is doctor, that he has eaten his birds, and that he just took