The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A lady called Muriel Spark wrote this book in 1961. The author herself was actually born and educated in Edinburgh, and then spent some years in central Africa. She returned to Britain during the war. For a time she worked for the political intelligence department of the foreign office. Then in 1961 she wrote this book.The book takes place in Edinburgh in 1931, before the Second World War. The main character being a female teacher called Miss Jean Brodie. She was a spinster although she would have confessed to such thing. She prided herself on the teaching of five little girls, whom went by the names of: Rose Stanley, Monica Douglas, Sandy Stranger, Jenny Gray, and Mary Macgregor. These girls in miss Brodie's opinion were to be the creme de la creme. Let me tell you a little about the characters personalities.Miss Brodie in my opinion is a very arrogant woman who considers herself her very important figure of importance; take for example page fourteen.'If only you small girls would listen to me, I could make you the creme de la creme. The Brodie set consisted of five girls as I have already told you. Let me go into a little more detail on each.
She has a tendency to take over lives, she likes people to know she is there and without attention, she would really be lost. Mss Brodie is a very stubborn woman and as Sandy finds out nearer the end of the book, that she enjoyed planning other people's lives; especially rose's and Sandy's, she even planned an affair for rose. One of the Brodie set actually betrays miss Brodie, but I shall keep you in suspense and let u read it. Both of these men had loved her and would have been willing to do anything for her, but alas, she rejects the affections bested upon her by Mr Lloyd and Mr lowther never seems to make her happy. Miss Brodie very often talks about her prime and how she was devoting it to her girls. If we take the time to look around us, we would see a world or rushed people, children growing up before they have to and work taking over our social lives. They explain that it was cold and how the sky was made up of unexplainable colours, it is one of the parts of the book on description. Miss Brodie is very classical and agrees with the old subjects such as art, music and Latin. These teachers all by some means are linked to miss Brodie. She does try to push the girls too hard, but in the end all the girls end up reasonably high up in society, except for poor marry who looses her life at a very easy age. For instance on page 27, sandy has an imaginary conversation with one of the characters out of the book ' kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson. When Mr lowther looses hope that she will ever marry him, he marries another teacher at the school, Mr Lloyd is already married, catholic and has six or more children.
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