This allows for a specific type of dramatic irony. We see characters who are polite to their colleagues but cruel to their siblings. We see parents who love their children but refuse to accept who they are. This gap between what a family should be (supportive, loving) and what a family actually is (messy, political, fraught) is where the best drama lives.
: Early legal systems, like the Roman edict of 295 CE, codified these bans as acts against both divine and civil laws. Literary Themes
Where boundaries are blurred, and family members are overly reliant on one another for emotional support, making individual autonomy feel like a betrayal [2, 7].
Characters are bound by decades of collective memory, both good and bad.
Clara hadn't visited the estate in five years. Not since the reading of their father’s will, which had left the crumbling Victorian house to Elena, and the debt-ridden family business to Clara. The front door swung open.