Is Hamlet a Backstabber?

You dont really think about it while reading the play but its kinda true. Hamlet is considered a backstabber. He does it with his mother, Ophelia, Rosencratz and Guildenstern.

Hamlets goal throughout the entire play is to kill his unlce for murdering his father. But in the process he hurts many other people too. One was Ophelia who was the love of his life. He had told her that he loved her and they were going to be together forever. They even sleep together because Ophelia believes that he is going to marry her. But then one day he tells her that he doesnt love her anymore and he wants nothing to do with her. This is devastating to Ophelia, because not only was she in love with him, but now that she slept with Hamlet her repuation is ruined because she is no longer a virgin.

Hamlet also does this to his mother. In the scene where he is in her bedroom, he tells her how he thinks that she is disgusting. How he doesnt know how she could get into bed with his uncle only a month after his death.

One of the worst cases of backstabbing was what Hamlet did to Rosencratz and Guildenstern. Claudius had sent them on the boat with Hamlet to England and gave them a letter telling the King to kill Hamlet. Well Hamlet found this letter and when he read it he got rid of it and wrote a new one telling the king to kill Rosencratz and Guildenstern right then and there. This was really wrong because neither of them knew what the letter said so they couldnt have been blamed. What Hamlet did was the ultimate backstabbing even if he says that he was forced to do it.