Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney :: Taste Honey Shelagh Delaney

Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney I am going to explain how Shelagh Delaney presents the changingfacets of Jos character. The range was written in the 1950s and wasfirst performed in 1958.The play is about a girl and her mother move to a grubby flat and areawith no men in their life, but all changes when Helen meets Peter andJo meet Boy. and then Jo gets pregnant with the black boy, and then meetsand shares a flat with Geof, a spring chicken homosexual. He takes and the authorityas caring and protecting Jo and they get on well. Geof brings Helenback to visit Jo, and Helen kicks Geof out.Jos is the main character in the play she is the daughter of Helen.She falls for a man called Jimmie who is in the navy, and then hemakes her pregnant and goes way leaving her with this black baby. Thenshe meets Geof who takes on the role of caring for Jo, and then bringsback her mother and he leaves. At the start-off of the play Jo is nonionized, capable and critical ofher mother, we know beca use she ranks Youre knocking it switch thanever. This makes us think that Helen has a drinking problem in thepast. Also in Act one scene one Jo shows she is organized by saying Im going to unpack my bulbs. I wonder where I can out them. Then shechanges when she meets Peter and becomes more than jealous, quarrelsome andannoying. When Helen leaves Jo becomes more resentful and feels hurtand unloved. When she meets Jimmie she becomes much more coquettishwe know this because she says to him in the play glad you like it.Its my schoolgirl tinct. She also becomes coy and likes theattention when she meets Jimmie.The play writer use melodramatic devices to show the changes in Jo well,as in when she has quarrels and fights between the other characters.In the 1980s it was not common to be a single grow family, andBritain was not a multicultural society. Jo changes though the playone warning of this is her opinion on poor housing. At the start ofthe play she say And I dont like it expr essing her self about the