Hamlet's misogyny is not something that was ingrained in his culture but what his mother ingrained within him. Hamlet did not always hate women as he does now, his harsh treatment of Gertrude and Ophelia is due to their betrayal of his love. Hamlet knows that despite having made mistakes, she has not stopped being a mother to him, apart from that he still feels anger towards her and the hatred he now feels for Ophelia is just a displacement of his feelings for his mother, " the total reaction culminates in the bitter misogyny of his outburst against Ophelia…Hamlet is really expressing his bitter resentment against his mother” (1199) towards poor, innocent Ophelia. His hatred of women is his alone frustration with his mother and Ophelia blinding him and not really him hating women because in Ophelia's tomb he says to Laertes "I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers with all their amount of love could not make up for my sum". 262) Hamlet's repulsion against women is simply the repression of his true love for the women in his life who have hurt him, "the powerful repression to which his sexual feelings are subjected".”