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The Use of Humor to Develop the Theme of Absurdity in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Introduction
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an exceptionally well-known series of comic sci-
fi books by English author Douglas Adams. The adventure taunts current society with humor and
sarcasm. It has as its hero an ill-fated, profoundly average Englishman (Arthur Dent) who
suddenly gets himself purposeless in a universe defined by uncertainty and absurdity. The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy's most exciting element is Adams's usage of gallows humor.
Gallows comicality is a humor type that is funny amidst an entirely clueless circumstance. It’s a
humor kind that a character adopts when she/he is aware something terrible will happen, and
nothing can be done about it. The consistent storyline depicted in the novel comprises several
characters' adventure via outer space and trying to get significance in a chaotic and perplexing
world, mostly sidetracked or giving-up along the way. They never get answers that gratify them.
However, get contentment in other methods, depicting the absurdist model of recognizing the
absence of higher significance to existence.
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect investigate the life meaning, the world, and everything
which is discovered in number forty-two. They find out the ultimate question that will permit
them to comprehend what number forty-two means, and discover an equally useless clarification;
forty-two is six multiplied by nine. This humorously improper calculation is the definitive
importance, triggering Arthur to comment that "that is it. That is everything that matters"
Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Course
Date
The Use of Humor to Develop the Theme of Absurdity in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Introduction
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an exceptionally well-known series of comic sci-
fi books by English author Douglas Adams. The adventure taunts current society with humor and
sarcasm. It has as its hero an ill-fated, profoundly average Englishman (Arthur Dent) who
suddenly gets himself purposeless in a universe defined by uncertainty and absurdity. The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy's most exciting element is Adams's usage of gallows humor.
Gallows comicality is a humor type that is funny amidst an entirely clueless circumstance. It’s a
humor kind that a character adopts when she/he is aware something terrible will happen, and
nothing can be done about it. The consistent storyline depicted in the novel comprises several
characters' adventure via outer space and trying to get significance in a chaotic and perplexing
world, mostly sidetracked or giving-up along the way. They never get answers that gratify them.
However, get contentment in other methods, depicting the absurdist model of recognizing the
absence of higher significance to existence.
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect investigate the life meaning, the world, and everything
which is discovered in number forty-two. They find out the ultimate question that will permit
them to comprehend what number forty-two means, and discover an equally useless clarification;
forty-two is six multiplied by nine. This humorously improper calculation is the definitive
importance, triggering Arthur to comment that "that is it. That is everything that matters"
