Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Analysis

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has the perfect setup for sci-fi story involving aliens, girls, destruction, and characters hunting for the truth behind the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. It’s a parody of science-fiction and uses the tropes of well-known stories to poke more fun at itself and those well-known stories. The world inside Hitchhiker’s Guide is dark, depressive, and downright dismal. However, the writing style and prose of Douglas Adams turns the dark world into something you laugh at. The use of humor mitigates the depressive nature of Adams’s world and brings to light the importance of comedy in human history. Adams is able to show how comedy can change the tone and mood of a situation to be light-hearted despite the immediate danger and gloom present. The story of Hitchhiker’s Guide is non-sensical, but Adams knows that and revels in it. This creates a setting that can’t be mirrored by any regular science-fiction novel.
Not many writers have the ability to write comedically. Douglas Adams uses his innately …show more content…
He combines the real-world event of Jesus Christ being crucified with a non-sensical joke about how the idea of world peace could be found on a thursday. Adams oversimplifies the crucifixion of Jesus Christ by saying that he was crucified over “how great it would be to be nice to people for a change”. The story of Jesus’s crucifixion is more complicated than that, but the delivery of the joke is what makes the over simplification non-offensive. Adams then goes on to describe how the secret to everyone’s happiness on earth was found by someone random. It’s a statement on how pointless it is to search for world peace, it can just come to you. Even if it does come to you how to solve everyone’s problems, that it can all be thrown to the wayside. Adams can put deep meanings into his seemingly “throwaway”
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