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2.1. The idea of novel “The prime of Miss Jean Brodie “
Plot summary. In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice, are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being "in my prime," as their teacher. Miss Brodie, decided that they shall receive an education in the authentic sense of the Latin verb educere, "to lead out," gives her students training about her private love existence and travels, promotion art history, classical studies, and fascism. Under her mentorship, these six females whom Brodie singles out as the elite team among her students—known as the "Brodie set"—begin to stand out from the relaxation of the school. However, in one of the novel's normal flash-forwards we examine that one of them will later betray Brodie, ruining her instructing career, however that she will in no way study which one.12
In the Junior School, they meet the singing teacher, the brief Lowther, and the art master, the handsome, one-armed warfare veteran Mr. Teddy Lloyd, a married Roman Catholic with six children. These two instructors shape a love triangle with Miss Brodie, each loving her, whilst she loves solely Mr. Lloyd. However, Miss Brodie by no means openly acts on her love for Mr. Lloyd, besides as soon as to alternate a kiss with him, witnessed by Monica. During a two-week absence from school, Miss Brodie embarks on an affair with Mr. Lowther on the grounds that a bachelor makes a more decent paramour: she has renounced Mr. Lloyd as he is married. At one point at some stage in these two years in the Junior School, Jenny is "accosted by a man joyfully exposing himself beside the Water of Leith." The police investigation of the exposure leads Sandy to think about herself as phase of a fictional police force in search of incriminating evidence in respect of Brodie and Mr. Lowther.
Once the women are promoted to the Senior School (around age twelve) although now dispersed, they preserve on to their identification as the Brodie set. Miss Brodie maintains in contact with them after college hours by way of inviting them to her domestic as she did when they had been her pupils. All the while, the headmistress Miss Mackay tries to damage them up and assemble statistics gleaned from them into enough cause for Brodie's dismissal. Miss Mackay has greater than as soon as suggested to Miss Brodie that she is looking for employment at a 'progressive' school; Miss Brodie declines to pass to what she describes as a 'crank' school. When two other teachers at the school, the Kerr sisters, take part-time employment as Mr. Lowther's housekeepers, Miss Brodie tries to take over their duties. She units about fattening him up with extravagant cooking.
The girls, now thirteen, go to Miss Brodie in pairs at Mr. Lowther's house, where Miss Brodie frequently asks about Mr. Lloyd in Mr. Lowther's presence. At this point Mr. Lloyd asks Rose and once in a while the other female to pose for him as portrait subjects. Each face he paints sooner or later resembles Miss Brodie, as her girls document to her in detail, and she thrills at the telling. One day when Sandy is travelling Mr. Lloyd, he kisses her. Before the Brodie set turns sixteen, Miss Brodie exams her female to discover which of them she can genuinely trust, eventually settling on Sandy as her confidante. Miss Brodie is obsessed with the thought that Rose, as the most stunning of the Brodie set, have to have an affair with Mr. Lloyd in her place. She starts to forget about Mr. Lowther, who ends up marrying Miss Lockhart, the science teacher. Another student, Joyce Emily, steps briefly into the picture, attempting unsuccessfully to be part of the Brodie set. Miss Brodie takes her under her wing separately, encouraging her to run away to fight in the Spanish Civil War on the Nationalist side, which she does, only to be killed in an accident when the instruct she is visiting in is attacked.13
The authentic Brodie set, now seventeen and in their final year of school, start to go their separate ways. Mary and Jenny go away earlier than taking their exams, Mary to emerge as a typist and Jenny to pursue a career in acting. Eunice will become a nurse and Monica a scientist. Rose lands a handsome husband. Sandy, with a keen activity in psychology, is involved by Mr. Lloyd's cussed love, his painter's mind, and his religion. Sandy and Rose model for Mr. Lloyd's paintings, Sandy understanding that Miss Brodie expects Rose to become sexually involved with Lloyd. Rose, however, is oblivious to the design crafted for her and so it is Sandy, now eighteen and by myself with Mr. Lloyd in his residence while his wife and kids are on holiday, who has precisely such an affair with him for five weeks at some point of the summer.
Over time, Sandy's hobby in the man wanes whilst her activity in the idea that still loves Jean Brodie grows. In the end, Sandy leaves him, adopts his Roman Catholic religion, and turns into a nun. Beforehand, however, she meets with Miss Mackay and blatantly confesses to trying to carry a cease to Miss Brodie. She suggests that the headmistress may want to accuse Brodie of encouraging fascism, and this tactic succeeds. Not till her loss of life second year after the end of World War II is Miss Brodie able to imagine that it used to be her confidante, Sandy, who betrayed her. After her death however, Sandy, now known as Sister Helena of the Transfiguration and author of The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, keeps that "it's solely possible to betray where loyalty is due."One day, an enquiring younger man visits Sandy at the convent, because of her bizarre e book on psychology. He enquires about the main influences of her faculty years, asking her: "Were they literary or political or personal? Was it Calvinism?" Sandy answers him, instead, by using saying: "There used to be a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime."14
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