The Controller in A Brave New World is responsible for maintaining the way the world behaves in the "civilization". He knows about God and the Bible. He keeps a copy of the Bible even hidden away from everyone. He also knows about Shakespeare's works of art. He gets into an argument with the Savage over these things. The Savage feels that the whole population of this new civilization should know about God and The Bible, he thinks it would help to restore things like marriage and parenting your own children. However, this is exactly what the Controller does not want. He wants a whole race of Bible ignorant people. The Controller just chooses not to share these things with the other people in the "civilization". He claims that people would not understand them because they are old. He has no faith in the new civilization of people being able to understand things just because they are old. The Controller, I think, really just doesn't want to share these special books from the old world because he doesn't want the entire "civilization" to rebel against him. The Controller is a powerful, but yet very selfish man.
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