Central to William Shakespeare's utmost famous play Hamlet is the theme of misogyny. Hamlet the protagonist of the play looks down upon women misogynistically. He famously scolds his mother “Frailty, thy name is woman,” which postulates his sense of disenchantment with his mother, Gertrude, who has hastily married his uncle Claudius orienting him to contemplate life, death and women in general whom he views as morally flawed. Analogously, his rigorous treatment of Ophelia, including exhortations such as “Get thee to a nunnery,” avows his soaring and wavering attitude towards women. Unequivocally, this motif is recurrent in Shakespeare's tragedies. However, doesn't render the bard of Avon a misogynist, because if we pay a look at his comedies we will find characterization of women other than the morally flawed woman. This variant representation of women in Shakespeare's plays and poems too can be studied only if we acknowledge that he's a writer reflecting divergent perspectives which may align aptly with the coeval mood of his epoch.