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

Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney I am firing to explain how Shelagh Delaney presents the changingfacets of Jos character. The play was written in the 1950s and wasfirst performed in 1958.The play is about a girl and her mother depart to a grubby flat and areawith no men in their life, but all changes when Helen meets Peter andJo meet Boy. thus Jo gets pregnant with the black boy, and because meetsand shares a flat with Geof, a young homosexual. He takes and the roleas caring and protecting Jo and they get on well. Geof brings Helenback to visit Jo, and Helen kicks Geof out.Jos is the primary(prenominal) 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 beginning of the play Jo is organised, capable and critical ofher mother, we know beca use she says Youre smash it worst 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 jealous, argumentative andannoying. When Helen leaves Jo becomes more resentful and feels hurtand unloved. When she meets Jimmie she becomes much more flirtatiouswe know this because she says to him in the play glad you like it.Its my schoolgirl complexion. She also becomes modest and likes theattention when she meets Jimmie.The play writer use dramatic 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 prevalent to be a single parent family, andBritain was not a multicultural society. Jo changes though the playone example of this is her opinion on poor housing. At the start ofthe play she say And I dont like it expres sing her self about the