"I drink to the Greater Being" (81). Big Brother, Hal, "Eagle Eye," and now Ford, all of these are figures, whether in a book or movie, that see all, know all, and can do whatever they want. But I'm going to focus on the book examples. At the beginning of this novel, the Controller was explaining the old world to the students. In his explanation, he said that they had gotten rid of all religions, when in fact, they really didn't. In this new world (and 1984's world) children grow up praising and being at total awe of a Being. This Being can do whatever it wants, it know absolutely everything, and is completely omniscious. Isn't that, in a way, sort of a dark religion? It seems to me that religion can never die. People will always need an answer to every mystery and religion seems to be the answer.