similar traits of orlando and oliver
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Oliver de Boys is the oldest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, which makes him the older brother of Orlando and Jaques de Boys (not to be confused with Jaques the melancholy clown). Because he's the oldest, Oliver has inherited just about all of his dead father's fortune and he's also been put in charge of looking after his little brothers.
Oliver's bad behavior toward his brother hints at larger social issue – primogeniture, or the system in which all of a father's wealth, land, and titles are passed down to his eldest son. (Yep, that means that any sisters or younger brothers totally get the shaft.) Shakespeare is really interested in the kinds of problems primogeniture can create. It comes into play in King Lear (where Edmund is so bitter that he tries to destroy his older half-brother) and also in Henry IV Part 1 (where King Henry worries that his son, Prince Hal, is waiting for him to hurry up and die so he can inherit the crown).