What is Hamlet about?

I read the text of Hamlet and I also watched the movie Hamlet (1996).

To be honest, Hamlet is not my favorite play. I blame my English teachers for that. Every year in high school we studied Hamlet. I think they were obsessed with it. I have seen a lot of different versions of it including a live play but I have never watched Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead nor did we ever discuss the play. I was actually unaware of this other perspective so it was an interesting turn.

What is Hamlet about? I think the meaning changes depending on who you focus on. In the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern perspective it means that even main characters are not the only ones that suffer. If you were to focus on Hamlet, you then go large questions about death itself and the afterlife. I think as a whole, the Hamlet play shows that every action we make or do not make affects more than just ourselves. Everyone in a space moves as one unit and bounce off one another. That notion is showed the most clearly in the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern perspective. Hamlet was the cause of everyone’s unhappiness because he was angry at his mother for her marriage. The new king hires them to talk to him because of all this unrest. They agreed and Hamlet greeted them happily because he regarded them as dearest friends. They did not stop what they were doing after they found out the letter called for Hamlet to be killed and went on. Because of that, Hamlet no longer found them to be companions but consorts with the enemy, changed the letter, and had them killed. Their ending might have different if they had done something instead of stay quiet. They might have not been directly involved with the conspiracy but just their presence and their actions were enough to lead them to a twisted fate just like the rest of the characters.