Hamlet failed to succeed in life, which led to his demise. Hamlet was a failure because he hardly ever expressed his true feelings about people and certain situations. Also, he was way too emotional at certain times. His emotions would get out of control sometimes and that had a bad effect on him. Hamlet was also too arrogant with a lot of things he did. He believed he was better than most people so that led to his death.
             Hamlet hardly ever expressed his true feelings. In the play Hamlet tells Ophelia that he does not love her and when he told her he loved her before he was lying, " you should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not" (Act III, sc. I). This really upset Ophelia so it started a lot of problems and it ended up turning out really bad. Another time where he didn't express his true feelings was when he defended his father's honour to fight laertes. Hamlet despised his father but he still fought for him anyway and that ended up with him dying because of poison on the sword. Hamlet agrees even though he knows he might lose, " I will win for him an I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits" (Act V, sc. II). If he was honest and didn't fight he would have survived.
             Hamlet was very emotional. His emotions led to bad things happening. He got mad at his mother for marrying Cladius and betraying her old husband, Old Hamlet. At that same moment Polonius was spying on Hamlet and Hamlet heard him close by, behind the curtains so he stabbed right through the curtains not even knowing who it was. He did this because his emotions get out of control and he became so angry and so worked up that he did something stupid," A bloody deed! - almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother" (Act III, sc. IV). Killing Polonius was the reason Laertes was so mad and why he ended up killing Hamlet. Another time when he was too
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