Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Jacqueline Winspear
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The novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a fictional story of what could happen if we were completely controlled by technology and given everything we desired. In this story, people are constantly taking drugs that prevent them from having certain feelings such as love and hate. They are constantly medicated to make sure their minds stay calm and happy. The people of this future world had lost the ability to think optimistically of the future and they did not even know it. They had lost their own sense of free will and did not even realize it.

Source: Maisie Dobbs

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