That beautifully burning number 1 is 6 times the fiend you'd imagined!

While doing my psychology homework I started thinking about the Prisoner (who doesn't think about the prisoner now) and I was thinking about the identity of number 1. Is he this all knowing figure like Big Brother from 1984 or... is he the evil essence that lives inside each of the villagers, this would explain the Number 2 in the A, B and C's episode's fear for him because we fear nothing more than what lives inside of us. And also Number 1 can mean Number one's self. To show even more evidence if you look closely at the opening the place where Number 6 lives in London, it has the numeral 1 on the door. And with the iconic lines "Who is number 1?" There are two responses that are completely different when read the normal one which we all hear is "You are number 6." Which can be perceived as number 2 telling number 6 that he is indeed number 6, but the hidden meaning could be "You are, number 6." With the added comma number 6  has become number 1, a self image he is striving to compete against. I actually have to credit my hypothesis to Bobby who came up with the idea that The Village was just a mind game that Number 6 is playing on himself, a dream like in the A,B and C episode.