Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
... The satirical text ‘The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy’ and the film ‘The Castle’ clearly illustrate this. ... In ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ the italics of the print set it apart from the rest of the novel. The book opens with a satirical description of earth as an insignificant planet of the galaxy. ... The opening of ‘Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ finishes with “It begins with a house”. ... In ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ Douglas is satirising both the science fiction genre and the guidebook genre. ... In ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ Douglas uses the techniques of exaggeration and understatement, irony and humour to portray his message to the audience. ... In the film everything is extravagated while is ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ most things are looked down upon or are made to be unimportant. ... In ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ there is the change from normal text to encyclopaedia entries with technical language. ... Both “The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy” and ‘The Castle’ are well written and filmed satirical works in which things are turned upside down by the composers and they have tried to put their point of view across to society.