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‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ was my chosen book for this term and it was an exciting yet full of nonsense read. Published in 1979, by renowned author: Douglas Adams. The novel is filled to the top with complete and utter nonsense and would be found funny from all audiences, from children to adults.
The story’s main plot line is a normal relatable character with the name of Arthur Dent, who faces troubles in his day-to-day life later to find himself deeply drifted upon the hectic endless ride, drifting through space along with characters of the most random and crazy.
The novel highlights the humor in today’s society and gives insight into the hilarious side of society and peoples everyday life. The main reoccurring theme which differs this read from other reads is the non-stop hilarious absurdity and craziness of the book. Adams satirically mocks the political and religious aspects of the real world. The novel’s craziness starts with the names of the things the characters live and breathe through their lives in space. To mention, the character’s space ship is called the ‘Heart of Gold’ means quite literally a pure, pristine heart which is a direct ironic joke as the ship’s owner; Zaphod had stolen the ship previously and definitely does not have a pure, pristine heart. Another example is how Adam highlights the importance of towels, something we, the audience take for granted. Adams give a towel an absurdly important role for our main characters. The towel is a simple thing in our lives today and will stay as a simple thing, but Adam makes it clear that it is much more than simple. In the novel, the towel can be used to fight alien monsters and in hand-to-hand combat. the aliens view a towel as an essential in any galactic hitchhiker’s life and even symbolize someone as being organized.
In addition, the element of sadness is also presented in the novel. Adams incorporates the sadness element into the novel in the form of a character, the brilliant Marvin. Marvin is a robot with incredible intelligence yet is so sad about so many things. Marvin is a part of the crew that travels the galaxy and goes on amazing adventures but yet he still is depressed regardless of the amazing universe. Marvin ‘brags’ to the rest of the crew as he is obviously smarter than then often making his points in conversation about his greater intelligence compared to the other characters. The other characters view the sad robot as an ‘electronic sulking machine’. The ironic element of the novel about Marvin is that how he’s a robot and yet feels one of the deepest things about being human, sadness. This is an obvious joke from Adam’s part as robots don’t possess the psychological ability to be human like. After a careful analysis of Marvin's role in the crew amongst the Heart of Gold, as he is not used for much physical labor as he is only tasked with opening doors, it can be concluded that Marvin's role is to incorporate dark humor and how we, as an audience are entitled to laugh and enjoy the never-ending sadness of Marvin the sad robot.
Overall, I really enjoyed ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, an exciting and at times ‘nonsensical’ book. It is definitely worth reading and will definitely not leave readers indifferent.
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