# The Last Woman and the Summons explained — Omega

> Chapter companion for Omega by Camille Flammarion.

## What happens

In a glass-domed equatorial city, Eva, a sixteen-year-old girl, is the last surviving human after her mother and sister have died. She contemplates suicide but instead uses her psychic powers to summon Omegar, the last man, from the ocean city. He arrives by airship, and they meet beside her mother's body. The mother briefly revives, revealing a vision of Jupiter as the new home for humanity, then dies again.

## Themes in this chapter

### Love as the Last Refuge

Eva and Omegar's psychic bond and meeting represent the final human connection before death.

### Human Progress and Technological Mastery

The chapter details the advanced technology that sustained life—glass cities, synthetic food, electrical communication—now exhausted.

### Transience of Civilization and Memory

Eva recalls the past fêtes and joys of humanity, now only memories in a dying world.

## Character check-ins

### Eva

The last woman, alone with her mother's body, summons Omegar through psychic power.

### Omegar

The last man, who responds to Eva's call and travels by airship to her crystal palace.

### Humanity

Referenced as the race that has perished, leaving only Eva and Omegar.

## Key lines

> She knew that she was the sole survivor of this last group of human beings, and that every happiness, every joy and every hope had vanished forever.

Eva realizes she is the last human alive and that all joy and hope are gone.

_Highlights Eva's isolation and despair._

> You called me. I have come.

Omegar tells Eva that he responded to her psychic summons.

_Marks the pivotal moment of their meeting._

> Behold, where we shall be tomorrow! ... Jupiter has received the inheritance of the Earth.

Eva's mother, briefly revived, shows them a vision of Jupiter as the new home for humanity.

_Introduces the theme of cosmic continuation after Earth's death._

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/omega_se/chapters/part-ii-v
- Book: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/omega_se
- All chapters: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/omega_se/chapters