Hamlet: success or failure?

Hamlet’s goals at the start of the play were very different by the end of the play. At the start of the play hamlet merely wanted to prove that there was “something rotten in the state of Denmark.” Then that goal of Hamlet changed after Hamlet came face to face with the ghost, of his dead father. Once hamlet believed what the ghost had told him, this occurred when Hamlet put on the play for the king. Once hamlet kn...