nobility

Merchants could suddenly earn fortunes rivaling the landholding nobility, and strange ideas could undermine intellectual elites.

She makes references to King Kalakaua, Queen Lili’uokalani and other Hawaiian nobility few in a mainland audience are likely to know.

Chris is a man of low social standing, unlike Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince or Clark Kent, whose social nobility somehow infers a level of trustworthiness.

Historians have interpreted this as the era’s political satire: the magpie, audacious in the presence of a great predator, represented the common man standing up to the nobility.

From what we can surmise, the baby is a device to showcase the nobility of the show’s male characters or lack thereof.