There are many different themes in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the two which stand out the most to me is absurdity, the state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable, and sadness. The theme absurdity stands out to me the most because, first of all, the second half of the novel is all over the place and jarred. Though this doesn't mean the novel is disorderly, it means there is a lot going on at one time and the story line switches between two scenes very often and can be somewhat farce to the reader. Sadness stands out to me because when Arthur’s planet blows up, he seems depressed which is worsened when he realizes the therapists and antidepressants got blown up as well. On the other hand, this novel is very humorous.
There…show more content… Arthur is very underspoken because he has no idea what is going on half of the time and doesn’t understand the space language terms which Ford and Zaphod say. The novel jumps from Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford’s point of view, to Arthur, Marvin, and Slartibartfast, the old man Arthur met on the outside layer of Magrathea point of view. Arthur and Marvin stand on guard while the others go into the hole in the planet's crust. The hole was made when the Improbability Drive was turned on in the spaceship and missiles being shot at the spaceship were turned into a sperm whale which dropped thousands of feet and cracked a hole in the ground. While Arthur tries to spark up a conversation with an extremely depressed robot, he runs into an old man named Slartibartfast. He is the Magrathean planet designer who tells Arthur all about the real story of Earth and the most intelligent species on it. He has a Sens-O-Tape, which gives Arthur a complete sensual experience. It's like “virtual reality, or Las Vegas.” The most intelligent computer named Deep Thought, created on Magrathea, said it would take 7.5 million years to find the answer to the question of life, the universe, and
