THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE

Biblical Allusions

Captives of Philippi

Speaking of the drug that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll says in chapter 10 that it, “shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.” Stevenson had obviously read ACTS 16 : 16-33. That Biblical passage confirms that while in Philippi, Paul cast a demon out of a female slave.

Cain

Within the first chapter of the novel, the narrator, says of himself, “I incline to Cain’s heresy…I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” What the Bible has to say about Cain can be found in GENESIS 4 : 1-26…