The Opening Chapters in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre Essays

How effective are the opening chapters in great 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 folkman who was well receiptn and wealthy. He had his own magazine, calledAll the yr round, in which he published Great Expectations overa period of 59 weeks one chapter a week was published his magazine.He wrote it in 1860 and it was published between December 1860 andAugust 1861.Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and written by Charlotte Bronte butunder the name of Currer Bell because it was great(p) for a women in theVictorian times to publish a book. She was natural in Yorkshire but liveda short life of only 39 years (1816-55). It was not just her in herfamily that dies at a youthfulness age, she had devil sisters who did not makeit to adulthood. She also had a brother and two surviving sisters. Herfather was a Vica r. She was not the only literate soul in thefamily her sisters also had books published.Great Expectations starts off with strap all whole in a desertedgraveyard looking at his contiguous relatives gravestones. Then a manthreatens him ...Ill cut your throat The man is an escapeprisoner and instructs off to help him by getting his brother-in-lawstools to get his shackles off. position agrees to help him so that theprisoner does not kill him. He says if Pip tells anyone that he hasseen the man he is button to be killed by a young manJane is an orphan living with the Reed family. She is being bullied byJohn Reed, and is scared of him. Mrs Reed ignores the bullying eventhough it happens in front of her ... ...n-laws tools to help the prisonerand how will Pip cope with the hale of keeping a big secret.I retrieve the cliff hanger in Jane Eyre is to a greater extent sucessful because inGreat Expectations we can almost 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 in that respect 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 plot 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.