The original series, or certain episodes of the Prisoner have often been compared to, with comparisons drawn, between Edgar Allan Poe's ‘The Masque of The Read Death,’ the films ‘The Prisoner of Zenda,’ Kafka's ‘The Trial,’ and ‘The Castle. Along with ‘The Vicious Circle,’ ‘Dead of Night,’ and ‘The Man Who Haunted Himself,’ to name but a few. So it will come as no surprise that this series will be compared to that of the original, and vice versa, and perhaps this is a fine place to begin, as I compare the following images.
And as another point, No.6 in the original series creates an abstract sculpture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, which he gives the title Escape! Well to No.6 his sculpture represents escape, because he knows that when the pieces of the sculpture are assembled correctly, they make a boat, in which No.6 and Nadia attempt an escape from The Village. In this series, Six finds a ships anchor in the desert. To 16 the anchor is just a desert folly, a nothing. But to Six the anchor represents escape, that there must be a boat, or even a ship nearby. And so it follows that a ship needs water, an ocean, or sea............and that means escape!
When the Prisoner hands in his letter of resignation, he does so by slamming an envelope down onto a desk, along with his fist in complete defiance and rage. And doing so upsets a cup and saucer, which sits on a tea plate. When Six first meets Two THEPRIS6NER , on his arrival in The Village, he bangs his fist down on Two's desk to force a point, but fails to upset a cup and saucer on the desk. No, more than that, Six barely causes a ripple in the actual tea in the cup!
And finally, as a boy Six wrote a note, put it in a tin, and buried it...the note ran "Whoever you are, I am Six," meaning whoever finds the tin and the note. In the original series No.6 wrote a note and hid it in a dead man's wallet, the note ran "To whosoever may find this........." I think the comparisons between the two series are patently clear.
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