FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Gertrude
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Ophelia
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Claudius
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Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -An allusion to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where the line is spoken by Queen Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Methinks the lady doth protest too much’: in other words, ‘I think something a woman [though sometimes, rarely, a man] is pretending not to like something that she [or he] actually is rather fond of, and she [or he] is merely feigning dislike or disapproval. ‘ That’s how we might summarise the phrase’s meaning.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (3.2. 254). Gertrude is speaking to Hamlet at the play. She is talking about the queen in the play and saying how she is so insincere. She then vows her love to her husband.
Detailed explanation-4: -to express an opinion or fact so strongly or so often that people start to doubt that you are telling the truth: She keeps trying to impress on me how she doesn’t like him but does she protest too much? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gertude’s comment “The lady protests too much, methinks’"’, reveals her own guilty conscience. The sentiment of this particular statement is to essentially show that a person can deny something so many times that it starts to become unbelievable.