Miss Jean Brodie/ Dead Poet Society Comparison Essay
             Pressure is a ubiquitous force that touches everything, and can be as gentle as a whisper or as potent as the torrential grinding of an earthquake. In small calibrated amounts, we hardly notice it, yet when we consider the violent, compelling force it can awaken, the diamond is born from the rough. The eons of constant stress will bring out the full potential in the rock that was never considered to be there, in a similar way that pressure acts on human emotion. Virulent strain can push the human being to an extreme so shocking that it's difficult to imagine, and sometimes the consequences are permanent. When you compare the Dead Poet Society and the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, pressure conflicts a student that the iconoclast teacher manipulates to pursue their past endeavors by proxy. The teacher and opposing force catch the adolescent in the middle, torn between what is expected of them and what the innermost desires of the student long for. At the apex of their unrelenting stress, they both tragically falter in their own form of death. The stress coagulates to a point that will furnish the diamond, but the excess stifles its shine. Opposing forces will sometimes bring out the best in us, while in most cases we tend to shatter under the magnitude of it, leaving us either broken or dead.
             Death works by proxy of stress, whether it be physical or metaphorical, and causes a change that overwhelms people. In both situation of book and movie you are given 2 teachers that appear conscience free but are emotionally strained because they can't grow up. It may seem so, but it is not coincidental that both of these rebels to society choose to teach young students at an awkward age. Like wet clay these children will impression upon easily, and over time when it dries, the influence is still there. Miss Brodie knows fully well what she is doing and what the outcome of her manip...