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…showed last 75 words of 480 total…is saying is that you give up your rights as an individual. The villagers gave up their autonomy to a stronger authority. This authority has such power over the people that no one is willing to do anything but follow the crowd. In the end, I think that the characters conformed to the situation that they were in simply to not be the rebellious person who made trouble and angered the rest of the villagers.