| Quote #28 Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase was repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken. "We – want – the whip." |
It is the need to be part of a community – to lose individual identity – that drives the citizens to partake in the masochistic orgy of the final chapter. In their minds, it is no different than, say, a Solidarity Service.