Malvolio Manages Messing up Marriage William Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night includes instances of love and loathe. Almost every character is trying to earn another’s love. The understanding of love is necessary to achieve it, and some people, in this play, know more than others do. Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, approaches love wrongly in The Twelfth Night. Malvolio knows the least about love because he is arrogant, and as a result he pursues love for the wrong reason. Malvolio desperately wants marriage from Olivia. He wants marriage for a higher social class and not the attention or affection from Olivia. Marrying Olivia for this reason would hurt Olivia by limiting her to partners and hurt Malvolio for showing more people how self centered
