Miss Jean Brodie Research Paper

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.” This line is told early in the book of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. One may not truly understand the importance of this one line until the book is complete. How can one person change and mold a group of girls alone? Is it brain washing? Or is it something much more dangerous? Miss Jean Brodie was an educator, someone that was in a profession to be trusted and help children gain knowledge and grow into individuals who could make a difference in the world. However, Miss Jean Brodie was a different type of teacher. She was eccentric and viewed education not as a doctrine to teach someone what they did not know; instead it was to pull out what they already knew. This method was a very different way of teaching. It was a different way of thinking; however it was what made Miss Jean Brodie very different. Did that mean she could take a child at 10 years old and mold them for life even though she would only be there teacher for two years? This paper will demonstrate how Calvinism and fascism
The system of Calvinism states that God is able and willing by virtue of his omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence to do whatever he desires with his creation”. (Slick, ). Miss Jean Brodie believed that she could mold these girls into her liking and create them to be whatever she wanted. In her mind she created these six girls and they would become what she wanted them to be. She would tell the girls what they would be and how they would behave as they got older and in some ways convinced herself and the girls that this image was true. One example of this is that she tells Rose who is only eleven at the time that she would be famous for sex. Rose becomes famous for sex but not because that is what her calling should have been, instead because that is the calling Miss Brodie set for