#and then immediately after he starts coming up with new mind games to test renfield with

[count-skribula]

Seward starts theorizing that renfield says this because he has some use for Seward or something that prevents him from hurting him, but I like the reading that renfield is just implying how this whole time Seward is the one who has been hurting renfield.

Because it’s true. Every time renfield attacks Seward it feels completely justified because it cannot measure up to the torture and dehumanization Seward has put him through.