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This is a 4 page paper discussing the portrayal of sexuality in Spark’s two works “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1961) and “The Driver’s Seat” (1970). Muriel Spark presents different portrayals of women and sexuality within two of her works, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “The Driver’s Seat”. In “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” Spark uses strategies to allow the reader to become aware of her constant comparison of Brodie’s life with that of a man’s. As Brodie becomes more in control during the “prime” of her life, her character is physically and mentally compared with that of strong historical figures. In addition, Spark shows Brodie as a representative of the growing feminism throughout the 1930s in which women began to travel more on their own and live their lives outside of the religious confines of the past. The central character, Lise, in “The Driver’s Seat” however, portrays an embittered and business-like modern women. Spark uses business imagery to describe Lise and how women in the 1960s modern business world have become ordinary, tight-lipped and are judged on how many personnel are “above them” or “below them”. In addition, Lise tries to search for a man who has a “lack of absence” which indicates that men as well as women are affected by the impersonalized nature of the modern world.
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Miss Jean Brodie" and "The Drivers Seat". In "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Spark uses strategies to allow the reader to become aware of her constant comparison of Brodies
life with that of a mans. As Brodie becomes more in control during the "prime" of her life, her character is physically and mentally compared with that of strong historical
figures. In addition, Spark shows Brodie as a representative of the growing feminism throughout the 1930s in which women began to travel more on their own and live their lives
outside of the religious confines of the past. The central character, Lise, in "The Drivers Seat" however, portrays an embittered and business-like modern women. Spark uses business imagery to describe
Lise and how women in the 1960s modern business world have become ordinary, tight-lipped and are judged on how many personnel are "above them" or "below them". In addition, Lise
tries to search for a man who has a "lack of absence" which indicates that men as well as women are affected by the impersonalized nature of the modern world.
Muriel Sparks novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1961) provides a good example of different portrayals of sexuality which can be very
specific to a time, place and social situation, in this case, a girls boarding school. Brodie believes that she is in her intellectual and sexual "prime" and as she "tirelessly"
reminds the girls of this, she indicates that her colleagues and her students parents are past theirs and individuals should feel privileged to be in her presence because she is
in her prime (Whiteley, 1996; Spark, 1961). Spark is very precise in her description of Jean Brodie which uses the technique of comparing her more with classic manly and Roman
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