The opening scenes of a novel play an important role in constituting a successful text. The introductory material gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story. The opening is always as important as the climax because it gives a first impression to the audience. A successful opening scene can arouse audience's interest and expectation and attract them to read up the text. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Arthur Miller's The crucible are two literary text which narrates two unusual topics - a future world and a witch-hunt. The opening scenes of these two texts successfully agitate audience's emotion and interest so that they are attracted to finish reading the two unusual stories.

Huxley successfully set up the atmosphere in the first three chapters of the book to arouse audience interest and expectation of the story. Huxley deliberately...