Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Antagonist

The main protagonist in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is Arthur Dent. Arthur Dent is a middle-aged, Englishman who is not very smart, but he is not stupid either. Throughout the book he is portrayed as generally confused. Although there are several potential antagonists, the mice (Frankie and Benjy) are the main antagonists in this book. Frankie and Benjy were originally seen as Trillian’s pet mice. Later in the book it is revealed that they were pan-dimensional beings who commissioned the Magratheans to build Earth. They wanted to this to discover the Ultimate Question. The Earth was destroyed before it could give the answer. The mice later try to remove Arthur’s brain, because there was a good chance that the question was encoded in his brain. …show more content…
The first conflict is Arthur vs. Mr.L.Prosser. Mr.L.Prosser is a councilman who wants to bulldoze Arthur’s house for a by-pass. This conflict is resolved by the destruction of Earth by the Vogons to make space for a hyper spatial express way. The second conflict is Vogons vs. Arthur and Ford Prefect (Arthur’s best friend who is an alien researcher for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Vogons do not like hitchhikers, so they want to put Arthur and Ford off the ship. This conflict is resolved when after reading them his poetry the Vogon captain puts them in outer space, where they are picked up by the Heart of Gold. The third conflict is Mice vs. Arthur. The mice want Arthur’s brain to get the Ultimate Question. This conflict ends when the police interrupt the meeting to apprehend Zaphod Beeblebrox, who has stolen the Heart of Gold. The final conflict gets resolved when Marvin (a chronically depressed robot) talks the police ship into committing suicide) which kills all the