In Shakespearean times and earlier than that, love between classes proved to be much more difficult. Heck, love between two enemy families was difficult! Did someone say Romeo and Juliet? But I’m boring myself even, back to the original point, love is able to work no matter. Unpopular opinion: if it doesn’t work, it wasn’t love. However, even more unpopular opinion: making it “work” isn’t always fairy-tale easy.
In my opinion, Aguencheek decides to stay on as a guest of Toby at Olivia’s place because he just likes to have someone to follow, that someone being Toby. It has nothing to do with “partying,” unless excessive drinking is considered a party. However, given that the prompt has to do with social class, I am assuming that Aguencheek is hoping to move up from his “knight-ness” and become higher in the class system. Which would make sense because, due to his supposed mannerisms and speech choices, he is probably alienated and isolated from normal “civilization” at times.
Also, Maria, Toby, Fabian, and Feste have a hatred for Malvolio. My original beliefs were just that they hate him because they ain’t him. Then once I got more of a feel for Malvolio’s character, I felt like it was more of his self-proclaimed sense of power over them because of his future with their lady Olivia. However, also given that this prompt is asking about social class, I can begin to sense that maybe it’s hinting that the prank-quad is actually just jealous of his position and his potential of moving up in the social rankings. But I can also see that maybe Malvolio feels threatened by their presence, he feels degraded. Even though my initially processed thoughts were just that some people just have a mean personality.
Malvolio is in love with the idea of Olivia. He loves the power that’s associated with being “in” with the Countess. He fantasizes about marrying her because all of this stored thirst for power he has can potentially ring true. Similarly to how, in today’s society, a guy may date a girl for her looks, Malvolio is interested in Olivia for her power. So, where I don’t doubt that Malvolio does, in fact, get butterflies in Olivia’s presence, I do doubt that he likes her for her personality. He barely knows her! His fetish is power, which is why he fantasizes about it.
I find the terminology “right noble” interesting but it doesn’t have much meaning to me personally. If I were to guess what it means, I would say maybe it has to do with (as I’m assuming everything else in this blog prompt does) with social class, social ranking. If his blood is “right noble,” then he must be ranked just under royalty in the class system, I presume. The only reason I can currently come up with as to why it matters would have to be, similarly to Boss Finley’s speech in Sweet Bird of Youth, keeping blood pure and avoiding blood pollution. Weird how they can parallel (would this be an appropriate time to mention juxtaposition, Scalia?). Or like "pure bloods" in Harry Potter. I can see it mattering to Orsino’s royal family, however I don’t see why it applies to Sebastian, given that Orsino isn’t actually interested in him.
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