The Opening Chapters in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre Essays

How effective are the opening chapters in nifty Expectations and Jane Eyre?In my essay i will be explaining and comparing the opening paragraphsof Great Expectations ang Jane Eyre. The author of GreatExpectations is Charles Dickens (1812-70). Dickens was a middle class gay who was well kn witness and wealthy. He had his own magazine, calledAll the year round, in which he give outed Great Expectations overa period of 59 workweeks one chapter a week was published his magazine.He wrote it in 1860 and it was published between December 1860 and terrible 1861.Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and written by Charlotte Bronte butunder the divulge of Currer Bell because it was hard for a women in theVictorian times to publish a book. She was born in Yorkshire but liveda short keep of wholly 39 years (1816-55). It was non just her in herfamily that dies at a young age, she had two sisters who did not makeit to adulthood. She also had a brother and two surviving sisters. Herfather was a V icar. She was not the only literate person in thefamily her sisters also had books published.Great Expectations starts off with whip all alone in a desertedgraveyard smell at his immediate relatives gravestones. Then a manthreatens him ...Ill cut your throat The man is an escapedprisoner and instructs impinge on to help him by charmting his brother-in-lawstools to get his shackles off. Pip agrees to help him so that theprisoner does not bulge him. He says if Pip tells anyone that he hasseen the man he is issue to be killed by a young manJane is an orphan living with the beating-reed instrument family. She is being bullied byJohn Reed, and is scared of him. Mrs Reed ignores the bullying in timethough it happens in front of her ... ...n-laws tools to help the prisonerand how will Pip cope with the pressure of keeping a big secret.I depend the cliff hanger in Jane Eyre is more sucessful because inGreat Expectations we can just about guess what is going to happen next,we can predict that Pip is going to help the prisoner and the prisonerhas made up the young man to scare Pip so he helps him.In Jane Eyre it is more of a cliff hanger because more questionshave to be answered later on in the book. We need to know what thered room is how long will Jane be in there for and is the bullyingfrom John Reed going to get worse.I think that Great Expectations is more sucessful because it hasmore of an effective fleck which would make us want to read on. I donot feel that Jane Eyre has a strong enough plot to keep the readersattenion and it would not make us want to read on.