Summary of New Atlantis

The novel “The New Atlantis” was written by Sir Francis Bacon in about 1623. This was a utopian novel that portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge. The book starts out with this European crew that’s sailing from Peru to the south sea. While on their voyage they get lost and come across this island and decide to check it out. In this point of the novel, Bacon introduces a mythical island, Bensalem, which is far advanced in the scientific and technological world. The inhabitants are expressed as generous and delighting, welcoming any to their land. The most important structure on Bensalem is Solomon’s house. This is an institution that undertook all the sciences and technology. Plenty of researches in the applied and pure sciences are done in this institution that would only better humankind like new medicines, ideas for technology, and so on. I think Sir Francis Bacon write this novel because he wanted to express what he might have been thinking at this time about the sciences and technology. He had predicted things that have already happened in today’s world. Sometimes when you have such creative thoughts it’s good to express through writing, maybe he wasn’t even trying to predict anything. So in my opinion, he’s expressing what could be how the future in science and technology will advance, or creatively speaking it could have been just a thought of nonsense. Because at that time nobody thought such things were possible.     

Paris in the 20th century: The Ending

Michel and Lucy's love begins to grow further. Making her the love of his life, Michel showers her with poems and love letters. In addition to working at the bank, Michel secretly helps out his uncle Hugenninn at the library. The time he spends there is very special because michel gets to know more about his father and who he was. They would fit down together and look at old pictures. Michel now understands why he looks the way he does and where he had gotten certain attributes from. The more time he spent with his uncle, the more he was interested he had been in learning about his parents. Boutardin found out about michel spending time with his uncle and immediately forbid him ti see and in addition to making him quit the job. Boutardin didn't want him talking to his uncle because he thought he was a bad inluence and wanted michel to know little about his parents, especially his father. Michel was furious but could not do anything about it. years passed and Boutardin had become very ill and was dying quickly. Cancer had got him. He eventually died on the 5th of november. Michel's aunt now a widow didn't know what to do, she was all alone. Coming to her comfort was Quinnsonnas.  They began spending a lot of time together and soon ended up getting married. After this marriage her attitude towards the arts had shifted. The family was more free to do as they wanted. Michel reunited with his uncle after 5 years. It was filled with tears and great emotion, they had plenty catching up to do. Michel proposed to lucy a year later. They all live together happily, free to do whatever they desired wether it was in the arts or business world. The End.