Tim O'Brien

“To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” – E. e. Cummings “The simple truth is that playing a game that you have chosen in order to demonstrate values, express purposes, or effect result that you have chosen is a very different process from having to play the game …

…come up with a plan to set Number Six up. Number Six is caught in his own trap by showing too much arrogance and everyone believes he was a warder attempting to trick them. I think The Prisoner can be compared to Laurence G. Boldt’s quote. If Number Six had not shown so much arrogance, the others would have believed him to be a prisoner. Then he would not have been tricked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**