History YMMV / ICaptureTheCastle

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe, '''Jacob Wrestling'''. And how! Several plot points revolve around this.
** Subverted with the novel Mortmain starts to write during the course of this one. His children think he's either doing this trope or else having another CreatorBreakdown because he seems to be endlessly fiddling with bits of childish rubbish, but actually he's trying to write a novel entirely from the perspective of a very young child. (A ShoutOut to Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan''.)

* AbusiveParent: Mortmain is portrayed as a neglectful father with severe anger issues. He threatens his wife with a knife, constantly neglects his children, and strikes Cassandra later on in the book. Justified in-universe, [[TrueArtIsAngsty because apparently he needed to have a nasty temper in order to write]], so the family tolerates his behavior for the most part, and actively encourages it later in the book.

* NippleAndDimed: For the film version. A single brief of Topaz's bare breasts while she's "communing with nature" was enough to give the otherwise pretty-darn-chaste movie an R-rating in the States. Notable in that it's ''specifically'' this scene that earned the R, while a shot of a shirtless Neil showing just as much bare chest went unremarked. Likewise a shot of Cassandra sunbathing while fully nude (from a distance, with a combination of a raised knee and a delicately draped arm concealing any naughty bits) was not considered R-worthy.

** As a lady of society, one of the things Rose must learn is [[SmokingIsCool how to smoke.]] Social smoking was taken much more lightly than it is today.

** Perhaps less a Values Dissonance than a DoNotTryThisAtHome, Cassandra shares her chocolate bar with her dog. While a very, ''very'' little chocolate would not kill a dog as large as Heloise, giving one's dog ''any'' chocolate is discouraged now, partially because of the immediate health risks and partially because acclimating a dog to an occasional taste of chocolate might cause him to sniff out one's stash and overindulge to the point of serious harm or death.

* AbusiveParent: Mortmain is portrayed as a neglectful father with severe anger issues. He threatens his wife with a knife, constantly neglecting his children and even striking Cassandra later on in the book, the father comes off as this.
** I can't tell if it was a ValuesDissonance or just TrueArtIsAngsty that his behavior was tolerated for the most part, even encouraged because apparently he needed to have a nasty temper in order to write.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: '''Jacob Wrestling'''. And how! Several plot points revolve around this.

* ValuesDissonance: While Mortmain's behaviour towards his children is mainly harmless, if pretty cold and distant, some of his actions (such as getting mad at Cassandra and pushing her into a wall) definitely don't go over as well today as they would have in the 1930s.

* AbusiveParent: Mortmain is potrayed as a neglectful father with severe anger issues. He threatens his wife with a knife, constantly neglecting his children and even striking Cassandra later on in the book, the father comes off as this.

** Cassandra may also qualify
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: '''Jacob Wrestling'''. And how! Several plot points revolve around this.

* AbusiveParent: With threatening his wife with a knife, constantly neglecting his children and even striking Cassandra later on in the book, the father comes off as this.