her. She is determined that one of her girls become the lover of the school's art master as her proxy and seeks out a way to make this happen. Another incident involves her encouraging a girl in her class to run to Spain and fight for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War which results in her death from the bombing of her train. This compares with the Calvinist teaching of Predestination, that God has already set out a path for everybody. One of her girls, Sandy Stranger, notices this similarity saying: She thinks she is Providence ... She thinks she is the God of Calvin, the Beginning and End. Ultimately, Miss Brodie's attempts to be the Calvinist God drives Sandy to the Roman Catholic Church. This is similar to Muriel Spark's own experience of converting to Roman Catholicism after growing up in Calvinist dominated Edinburgh. In the climactic scene of the film, Miss Brodie confronts Sandy and is pointedly told that she is "not good for people, and children should not be exposed to you." Realizing she has no hope of appealing her dismissal, Miss Brodie can do nothing, but call after Sandy as she walks away, "Assassin! ASSASSIN!!!" Miss Brodie states she will be Transported to Australia for radicalism. The film closes poignantly with a shot of Sandy tearfully walking along after graduation as we hear a voice-over of Miss Brodie saying, "Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" Fascism Miss Brodie is described as a "born fascist" by one of her girls. An active teacher while fascism was gaining popularity in Europe, she openly admires Benito Mussolini and praises him in her class. She frequently tours Italy, returning inspired by what she sees as Utopia. When Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, she changes her holiday destination to Berlin, believing Hitler's brownshirts to be more organized than Mussolini's blackshirts. When Sandy meets Miss Brodie for tea in the Braid Hills Hotel in 1946, Miss Brodie concedes that "Hitler was rather naughty." Her advocacy for fascism comes into play when she persuades a troublesome girl to fight for Francisco Franco which ultimately leads to tragedy. Reference in later works The character Domenica Macdonald in the 44 Scotland