The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Essays

Narrating Modernity: The structural dynamics in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” In this paper I intend to talk about Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as an example of the modernist movement and how certain features of the modernist period were incorporated in this literary text. With inventive story-telling techniques and fascinating characters the novel becomes persuasive and engrossing. Therefore any modern day reader would find it to be “the crème de la crème.” Spark have used

In the early 1930’s of Muriel Spark 's’ love vs betrayal novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie and her six students (The Brodie Set) cover the paradox of the controversial stereotype of a classical woman through the symbol of art. Between the six girls of the Brodie’s Set (Rose, Eunice, Sandy, Monica, Jenny and Mary), each had their own views on Miss Brodie and how she portrayed art as a sophistication. To Miss Brodie, “‘...women from the age of thirty and upward with voyages discovered

In everyday life, people subscribe to these social narratives as part of what it means to exist in a society. It is exactly this kind of acceptance of authority in ‘conforming’ to these narratives that this novel seeks to question. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ is about the relationship, and frequent misalignment of authority and objectivity. This is primarily effected by Spark’s casting of the narrative voice in the role of ‘authority’ and, by subtle nuances throughout, her inviting the reader

1. Joy changes her name to “Hulga” because she is acting in an act of rebellion to her mother. She knows her mother’s wants her to have a really pretty name and “Hulga” is the ugliest name Joy could think of that her mom will hate. Mrs. Hopewell is for sure that Hulga looked for that name until she finally found the ugliest name she could think of and after that Joy legalized it so it would be for sure certain. Hulga’s poor health keeps her at her home all the time. Hulga wants to leave home and