The Naivety of HamletKeeping secrets isolates you from your friends and makes you very lonely. Hamlet's loneliness, his false friends and his betrayals are largely the cause of his downfall. The Danish court is filled with spies: Claudius hires Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet; Polonius spies on Hamlet in Gertrude's room; Polonius uses Ophelia as bait to spy on Hamlet. Hamlet is not part of this deception; he is honest. For example, Claudius suggests that Hamlet is being honest when he and Laertes discuss their double agenda; Ophelia believes that Hamlet is honest and says: "What a noble spirit here is overthrown!" (III; i; 157), referring to Hamlet's mischievous character, even though he insulted her during two previous acts. Her relationship with Horatio shows her true character, because of the trust he places in her. ("Horatio, you are as fair a man as my conversation ever was" --III; ii; 59). A naive person is often exploited in a harsh, cold and deceptive world. The fact that your stepdad is asking your best friends to spy on you must make you feel horrible. When Claudius hires Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (R&G) to spy on Hamlet, I beseech you both…/…/thus by your companies to lure him to pleasures and gather, as much as you can glean second-hand, if anything is unknown to us. afflicts him thus. What has opened is found in our remedy. (II; ii; 10-18) they admit to Hamlet that they were sent to spy on him. Hamlet shows this by saying: "No, then I have an eye on you. – If you love me, don't hold back." (II; ii; 301). It's like he's saying to them, "If you were really my friends, then you should tell me why you're so interested in everything I do." He later takes revenge on his friends, who are sent to spy on him when he is sent to England. He opens the letter to the English government and replaces "kill my foolish son Hamlet" with "kill these messengers", and seals the letter with his father's ring: Without debate more or less, he should put these bearers to sudden death, Forbidden Shrink Time/…/I had my father's seal in my purse, which was the model for the Danish seal…. (V; ii: 45-50)Curiosity killed the cat. Polonius' spying on Hamlet is what kills him.