“The distance between madness and genius can only be measured by success”, as Bruce Feirstein would say. Crazy people are simply those who are not given the opportunity to change the world. Instead, they are locked up before society begins to take control of the madman's ravings. Genius, on the other hand, is what is created when madmen are given time to speak out. When Renfield began to address the question before him, he did so with the utmost impartiality and complete sanity. This leads the astute reader to wonder whether Renfield was, in fact, completely sane but driven to madness while confined within the confines of an asylum. Even the most sane person can have crazy tendencies when they have too much homework. This simply represents the imperfection of human beings. How do you know if you are truly sane when you don't know the attributes of the madman from his point of view? Madness is contagious and those who get it should be considered lucky to have it as it is a sign of genius. It gives us the other side of the sword used to slash conformity and discord. When Jonathan began to pray “Great God! Merciful God, let me be calm, for out there lies madness", to preserve his sanity while in Dracula's castle, he was overwhelmed by things that are not usually known to those who live in the relative safety of the status quo .He began quoting Hamlet (which contained his fair share of madness) stating that keeping his diary would help keep him in the realm of sanity “My tablets quick! ” His mind was too busy with things that are normally set up as plot elements in children's fairy tales. Jonathan was given the task of choosing between... half of the card... is right and who is wrong requires a 'careful consideration, offered by those who have a hint of madness within them. Madness is the sign of a genius, it is simply not always allowed to be realized crazy, and we are also given normal men who want to eradicate the vampiric threat that is Dracula; question your sanity on the matter. All in all, Renfield and men are very similar. We have sane men questioning their sanity and madmen questioning their insanity. It just goes to show what a small amount of madness can do to a person. The reader begins to wonder about the question of his own mental state. “There is only an inch of difference between the padded room and the padded cell,” as Gilbert Keith Chesterton would say.