The phenomenon of brotherly antagonism is as old as the biblical Cain and Abel story. Also, the history of Scotland is rife with tales of families that were divided over the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745. Such familial conflict also reflects the famed intransigence of the Scottish temperament.
Further back in English literature, however, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's play The Elder Brother (c.1637) deals with such a fraternal hostility, though in a considerably less violent manner than Stevenson does.
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