Hamlet

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What are Ophelia motivations/biases/desires in Act one specifically

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Ophelia's motivations are love and respect. She loves Hamlet..... but she also loves, respects, and obeys her father and brother. She desires Hamlet's love, but she is swayed by her father's words. Bias is a bit more difficult to detect. I don't see Polonius' warning to Ophelia about Hamlet as creating a bias by which she sees Hamlet as disingenuous. I see her youth as leaving her maleable.

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