Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Analysis

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is, in a nutshell, absurd. In fact, it is absurdism at its finest. In the first chapter, we are introduced to our main characters. Arthur Dent, whose house is to be torn down today to make room for a road and which he only finds out then the demolition team begin the process that day. Then, there is Ford Prefect, Arthur’s best friend, who turns out to be an alien. Where things get truly bizarre, in just the first chapter, is when we discover Ford is an alien because that is where we are introduced to the Vogons, an interstellar race who has come to Earth to destroy it to make way for a space road. When this is announced, Ford finds Arthur and uses his hitchhiker’s thumb to hitch a ride with the Vogon cooks, who turn out not to like them and eject them into space. Where we are introduced to Zaphod Beeblebrox, who happens to be Ford’s cousin, by rescuing our heros in the Heart of Gold space ship which he stole. The ship …show more content…
It turns out that Magrathea is very trashy on the surface with lots of barren vegetation and dust, they walk for a bit and find the huge crater in which the whale had died in, and to their surprise there were some passageways into the planet (not on it but in it) Zaphod then tells the group that he has figured it out, and that all the people of live underground, in doing so they decide to have Marvin and Arthur stay on the surface as Zaphod Trillian and Ford go down into the tunnels. Some walking down the creepy tunnels occurred as Zaphod explains someone has carved their initials for him to see in his brain Gas is released and all 3 pass out. We then come to Arthur which just reads The hitchhikers guide he decides to go for a walk, he runs into an old man that explains that Magratheans are not a burnt out civilization but are sleeping until the financial state of the Universe resolves