Lloyd, and it is Sandy who betrays Miss Brodie to the Blaine headmistress, for Miss Brodie in her enthusiasm for fascism encouraged a Blaine student named Joyce Emily to fight in the Spanish Civil War. But, in the end, all of Miss Brodie’s plots go awry: it is Sandy, not Rose, who ends up sleeping with Mr. In this way, Miss Brodie plays God, determining the course of fate. Lloyd as her proxy, and she grooms her favorite, the insightful Sandy, to serve as her informant in regards to the affair. Nonetheless, she subtly grooms the instinctual Rose Stanley to have a love affair with Mr.

Lloyd and he loves her, but, as he is married, Miss Brodie renounces her love for him, becoming intimate instead with the singing teacher Mr. Indeed, she loves the Blaine art teacher Mr. Miss Brodie’s power over those around her-not just her pupils but also the men in her life-stems in part from her feeling that she is in her prime, that is, at the height of her charisma both sexual and otherwise. Just as the predestining God of Calvinism elects the few to salvation, so does Miss Brodie elect six of her pupils to become her special girls, girls whom she develops culturally and confides in, and who in turn loyally admire her-these six girls make up the “Brodie set”. Although she is a woman of culture and even has something of an artistic nature, Miss Brodie can also be dogmatic, manipulative, and cruel. She doesn’t instruct her girls in history and arithmetic, say, so much as she shares with them poetry, makeup tips, the virtues of fascism, her own romantic history and the like. Miss Brodie, with her dark Roman profile, is a charismatic but unorthodox teacher at the Blaine Junior school.

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