The Opening Chapters in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre Essays

How effective are the possible action 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 classman who was well known and wealthy. He had his own magazine, calledAll the course of instruction 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 hard for a women in theVictorian times to publish a book. She was born in Yorkshire but liveda short life of only 39 years (1816-55). It was non ripe 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 Vicar. She was not the only literate person in thefamily her sisters also had books published.Great Expectations starts off with Pip 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 Pip to help him by inviteting his brother-in-lawstools to array his shackles off. Pip agrees to help him so that theprisoner does not kill him. He says if Pip tells anyone that he hasseen the man he is going 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 battlefront of her ... ...n-laws tools to help the prisonerand how will Pip cope with the pressure of keeping a big secret.I think the cliff hanger in Jane Eyre is more sucessful because inGreat Expectations we can almost guess what is going to happen next,we can predict that Pip is going to he lp 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 plot which would make us want to read on. I donot chance that Jane Eyre has a strong enough plot to keep the readersattenion and it would not make us want to read on.