The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A discussion of how the protagonist in the novel ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, who has contradictory views, shows leadership skills which are similar to those of the dictators she admires so much, and her ultimate lack of success in doing so. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ by Muriel Spark is a novel in which the protagonist is a school teacher who has a very strong influence over her “girls.” It can be …

…The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” is a novel that exposes the consequences of a teacher who tries to discipline and influence her pupils to her way of thinking, which was similar to those of the dictators she admires so much. Miss Brodie is a character with misguided beliefs with which she tried to indoctrinate her girls. However in the end none of the girls turned out the way she had tried to influence them.