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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1085 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The eponymous heroine in Muriel Spark’s ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ is an influential schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls 1930s Edinburgh. Spark’s plot charts the decline of Miss Brodie’s influence over a group of her favourite pupils known as her ‘Set’. This decline parallels the growing independence of thought and intellectual maturing of Sandy Stranger, a key member of the Set. The narrative is developed from a decisive
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plot of ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ follows Sandy’s developing awareness of the dangerous influence of Miss Brodie on those close to her. As a young girl, Sandy is only aware that she finds aspects of her mentor’s teaching unacceptable. That awareness starts when she wants to be friendly to Mary, and once this seed of rebellion is sown, a domino effect is started which ends to her ‘betrayal’ of Miss Brodie.
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