"Another Antigone"
| Title | "Another Antigone" |
| Year for Search | 1955 |
| Authors | Morrison, D. A. C |
| Secondary Title | A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 |
| Pagination | 96-106 |
| Date Published | 1955 |
| Publisher | William Heinemann |
| Place Published | London |
| Annotation | A eugenic dystopia in which love, poetry, art, etc. have been abolished. Infants with "lesser intelligence" are killed. The "highly-talent" are required to mate. Those believing in souls are exiled from the Earth. A young woman, like Sophocles's (496-406 BCE) Antigone, believes that there are higher laws than those of the rulers and frees an enslaved brain. |
| Holding Institutions | L, NLS |
| Full Text | 1955 Morrison, D.A.C. “Another Antigone.” A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 (London: William Heinemann, 1955), 96-106. L, NLS A eugenic dystopia in which love, poetry, art, etc. have been abolished. Infants with “lesser intelligence” are killed. The “highly-talent” are required to mate. Those believing in souls are exiled from the Earth. A young woman, like Sophocles’s (496-406 BCE) Antigone, believes that there are higher laws than those of the rulers and frees an enslaved brain. |
