The Hitchhikers 'Guide To The Galaxy' By Douglas Adams

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“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”(Brainy Quotes) as said by Ray Bradbury. The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a quirky science fiction story that will leaves the reader laughing every time.The novel starts out with the tale of Arthur Dent and his struggle to keep his home from being bulldozed to the ground. That is until his alien friend, Ford Prefect, comes to gather him because the Earth is going to be destroyed. Vogons attack and destroy …show more content…

It pulled itself up to its feet as if it was about five pounds heavier than it actually was, and made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room. It stopped in front of Trillian and seemed to stare through her left shoulder. ‘I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed,’ it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.”(Adams 90)
This example is of Marvin, the robot, acting and feeling depressed, much as a human would. The robot is portrayed as showing human emotions even though he is not human. One very obvious theme is anthropomorphism, or basically personification. This shows through the dolphins and how they tried to warn the humans how they knew the work was going to end. Also the depressed robot,Marvin, is a great example of giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.(“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”133) Marvin is mentioned yet again in this example, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide takes that assumption to an extreme by giving the machines undesirable personalities(“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”133). Anthropomorphism is another style that Adams uses in his

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