The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Character Analysis

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a book that tells the story of six young girls, called the ‘Brodie set’ and consists of Sandy Stranger, Jenny Gray, Eunice Gardner, Monica Douglas, Mary MacGregor and Rose Stanley. All these girls have an interesting personality. Miss Brodie has a different way of teaching than you would expect: she tells her pupils about her love life and sometimes takes them to an exhibition in an art museum. Now, miss Brodie talks a lot about fascism and how fascinating it is to her set of girls. In this essay I will argue that Miss Brodie influences her pupils by giving arguments how the theme fascism is very prominent in the story.

Firstly, Miss Brodie can be seen as a sort of fascist leader, as she sees her young girls as a tight group or unit. She wants to influence the girls by teaching her own kind of ideology, just like what fascist leaders told their people that their ideology was superior. Other beliefs were bad and people, who were a supporter, were being punished for believing. In the story the girls are

One time when Miss Brodie tells her girls about her trip to Italy, she shows a picture of marching soldiers in front of the fascist leader Mussolini. However, she doesn’t say that his ways of ruling are awful, but instead she glorifies the leader. Miss Brodie tells the set of girls that the formation did splendid things when she watched them. Mussolini, in her eyes, is one of the greatest men in the world and this shows how she is an active follower of the fascist ideology. Because of her naivety towards the cruel bullying and atrocity that fascist leaders force upon certain individuals, she can’t see the wood for the trees and she also doesn’t know that her way of manipulating the young children is actually wrong. She is too much in her own world that she hasn’t got a clue that she is actually doing more wrong than