Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Analysis

Right from the start of the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hits you with a foreshadowing of how small you are compared to community with the example of the demolition of Arthur Dent’s house. It shows how powerless Arthur Dent is to stopping the destruction of his house and how high and mighty humans feel by controlling what gets destroyed and what does not. Earth is treated just like Arthur Dent’s house, useless and in the way for something better. The Vogans address Earth as nothing more than construction and insinuate that if they couldn’t travel light years to read the fine print of the demolishment of Earth than they are better off dead. In the Hitchhiker’s guide to save room, humans were written in as “harmless” and why shouldn’t they be? Humans were for their whole existence ignorant to the fact that there was more than just
When in fact the dolphins were trying to warn them about the destruction of Earth but humans never understood what dolphins were saying. The last message the dolphins ever sent out was “so long and thanks for all the fish” (Adams 156). The other creature that was more intelligent than the dolphins were the mice, and yet the irony that man thought they were experimenting on mice, when in actuality it was mice experimenting on man, shows how limited mankind’s thinking really is. Even more mind boggling is that mankind never fathomed that they were the key to the ultimate question and were “five minutes” away from completing the program. Another great animal to compare humankind to would be the personification of the whale, it was given consciousness but unfortunately it was also falling to its death. However in those mere seconds a free thinking the whale thought of things in which it takes regular humans ions to think of like “Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?” (Adams