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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."
They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours-almost indefinitely. (18.83-4)
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.