The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

February, 25, 2018 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: The Power of Influence INSERT CONTEXT HERE Dr. Frances Jensen, a neuroscientist at Harvard University, proclaims an adolescent’s mind to be “a brain that’s all revved up not knowing where it needs to go”1. Here, Jensen articulates that children are very impressionable during their adolescent years. Therefore, influential figures play a crucial role in shaping the minds of children. In Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie, a teacher, manipulates her student’s growing perceptions to remain as much in alignment with her own as possible. However, as Miss Jean Brodie exploits the powerful effects of influence, one student, Sandy Stranger,…

William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë and is best known for her novels, Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she received multiple accolades. Spark was made a dame in 1993. She died on April 13, 2006, in Florence, Italy. The portrayal of teachers in the creative medium of literature extends to a multiplicity of stereotypes; we have the understanding and fad-following women, the ‘Nazi’ referenced and bitter middle aged and those defined…

elegantly and with a sense of mature fun that is unique today. Her first four novels, The Comforters, Robinson, Memento Mori, and The Ballad of Peckham Rye, are so involved with eccentric events and the odd personality that they have virtually no content. Spark does not care to probe too deeply into strong emotions or to involve herself into complex situations. Several of Spark’s novels, in fact, follow the pattern of merciless wit that has been Ivy Compton Burnett’s trade mark for decades.…

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