Hamlet: Idiot Savant Hamlet was what you could call a very strange or weird person upon first glance. He was mangy looking and talked as if he were crazy. He would talk to you like you were a part of one of the books he had read. Hamlet's father had died in his sleep. He started to seclude himself from the world and read constantly. He started to act out and portray what he read. He was in a confused daze between reality and a dream world. Living in a dream state is very dangerous because he did things that normally he would have thought through first. He accidentally killed an official to his mother because he thought that it was his uncle. He started to hallucinate that