Basically, Hamlet is a play about growing up. At the start of the play Hamlet still believes life should be beautiful and perfect and people should be good and honest. He is shocked and angry when he discovers that many people are not good nor honest. He thinks life should have deep meaning but he can find no meaning at all.
Through the play he struggles to accept that life is painful and difficult. All the beautiful things he believed are gradually destroyed and he becomes depressed and suicidal.
Near the end of the play he changes, he becomes colder and less emotional. He has no hope but he no longer cares. He accepts life is meaningless. Instead of 'thinking about everything', he acts. He has his old friends murdered. He kills his Uncle and Laertes and accepts his own death.
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