Hitchhiker's Satire

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams in October 1979. This science fiction masterpiece has grasped the hearts, and giggle boxes, of readers all ages. Companies and businesses have molded Hitchhiker’s into a movie and a tv series; Douglas Adams even wrote 5 additional books. What about this novel has its readers so engrossed in its short 180 pages? The irony, political satire, and overall humor of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy makes it understandable and hilarious for all ages; major companies will grab anything they can get that attracts a big audience and makes big money, which is almost the definition of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. This novel screams irony from cover to cover; the first sight of irony comes from the

There is not one chapter in this novel that doesn’t contain some form of humor, whether it be sarcasm or a hyperbole. For example, when Ford made fun of humans for stating the obvious, “One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious...are you alright?”(48) It’s funny because, if you really think about it, everyone does this. If it’s cold outside, we’ll tell each other, “hey, it’s cold” or “boy, it’s really chilly outside.” There’s more than phrases and quotes that are humorous, there is also a few characters that resemble humor, such as Marvin the Robot. Marvin is a seriously depressed robot, who accidentally talks a spaceship into suicide. Marvin even whines at the doors on the spaceship, “Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed. Here’s another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don’t talk to me about life.” Marvin also fits in the irony category, as stereotypical robots are not supposed to have feelings, but Marvin does have feelings- just very sad