The dissenter is a lone voice who understands that the bargain being made with the Monarch is false. She knows the value of what she has (in our story, the banana, representing sustenance, land, food) and giving it away for the illusory promise of power and prestige is something she only does under coercion by her fellows. In succumbing, she represents the urge and dilemma of those who see the system for what it is but find it impossible to avoid participating in it. She is many of us, stuck in a trap, believing that we have no power and are alone inside the system and unable to fight it. She shows how difficult lone dissent is, but also how powerful it is when it can pull the community along with it. In our story, the dissenter preserves that core truth, so that at the end, the corps de ballet can rise up, together, and throw down the idol.