A taste Of Honey

Question 1

What is the meaning of Atypical ? - Use it in a sentence

Answer 1

Not typical for that time .

Question 2

What is the meaning of Contentious ? Use it in a sentence

Answer 2

Argumentative

Question 3

Promiscuous Use it in a sentence

Answer 3

Someone who is sexually active

Question 4

Self Sufficent - Use it in a sentence

Answer 4

Soemone who is independent

Question 5

Dependent - Use it in a sentence

Answer 5

Relient on something else

Question 6

Stoic - Use in a sentence

Answer 6

Puts up with things without complaining .

Question 7

EXAM QUESTION - How are Helen and Jo presented in the opening of the play ?

Answer 7

Refer to book for mark scheme

Question 8

When and where was Shelagh Delaney born ?

Answer 8

November 25 1939 in Salford Lancashire

Question 9

What did Shelagh Delaney parents do

Answer 9

dad bus inspector

mum - part of the enflish working class .

Question 10

what secondary schoo did she attend

Answer 10

broughton secondary schol

Question 11

what age was delnaey when a taste of honeyw as produced

Answer 11

when she was 18 years old

Question 12

why was a taste of honey rewritten as a play

Answer 12

as a respone to delnay’s dissatification with contempoary theatre . She said she would write a plwy that had more relaistic dialogue rather than a play that is staged .

Question 13

what was the play taste of honeuy singled out for

Answer 13

its accurate depicitions of working class lives

Question 14

what is absurd drama

Answer 14

drama that is meaningless and mainstream about the upper class postw ar

Question 15

what is social drama (link to taste of honey )

Answer 15

social drama is oftn concwrned with working class nd younge genertion . It was very controversial doe the time thatdelnaey chose a female protoganist who has a homosexual friend and an interracial relationship .

Question 16

what is anrgy young men

Answer 16

a title given to a grup of british writes -John Osborne whose work expressed bitterness and disillusionment postwar english society . Usully have an atihero - who rebels against corrupt social odreer .

Question 17

angry young men - link toshelagh delaney

Answer 17

many critics saw her work as a protest agains workign class poevr and social conditons of her time .

Question 18

what is kithcen sink theatre ?

Answer 18

kithcen sink theatre is a movement in theatre which uses family and domestic setting in order to examine soicla and class issues .

Question 19

why is tatse of honey a ktichen sink theatre

Answer 19

it is reffered to as a kithcne isnk drama because it portays lives of working class people living in deprived inner city environemtns truggling to overcome perosnal an dpractical problems .

Question 20

culture in 1950s and 60s

Answer 20

after dicciulties in rationing and shortages , britians economy ystarted doing very well which had an ephasis on oyuth and outh culture ,

Question 21

Morality in olate 50s and earlky 60s

Answer 21

cult of youth - recognition of the teenager in consumerism.
Young people suddenly had more power .
Fashion and msuic became important .
Contraception became avaialbele in the 60s
rise and influence in televesio
1957 wolfenden report 195 recommended homosexuality should not be a criminal offfenc - indcates change in oubliv opinion

Question 22

Love + Marriage How does Shelagh Delanely present it

Answer 22

delagney describes marriage as prision where we women re trapped , when Helen is trying to deter Jo from marriage , it is revealed tht there is an ideal type of wife in society “what sory of wife do ou think you make”, and once your married , you are devotg your life to your husband , She also suggests that arriage is not an ejoyben t but”Marriage cn be hell for a kid “

IN HELENS shoes , she is marrying Peter for practical reasons more than out of love . He can offer her financial stability “he spends his money like water” and therefore Helen must satisfy all his desires to be able to depend on him . Suggesting marriage is not always out of love .

Question 23

How does Delaney present women in the 1950s

Answer 23

Delaney presennt women in the 1950s as being objectfied and having an ‘expiry date’ , if you are gonna bo cme a wife , you have to fufill the exoectations of not only society , but oyur husband aas well .
This is further prreented when Helen talks about how being moral will not get you anywhere , although in religion she may be seen as a disgrace , Hellen suggetss that “Heaven must be a hell of a place “ “full of pimps prostitutes and politcians” showing a subversion of heaven hell and in the end it is what socioety believe not religion .

Question 24

How does Shelagh Delaney present death in taste of honey

Answer 24

Shelagh delaney presents darkness in the play by usrrounding the flat Helen and Jo live in surrounded by dark and death in a form of a slaughter hosu . Peter describes the place as “a black hole caluctta” which is reference to the dungeons where prisoners of britian were held . A black hole is full of darkness - something Jo is scared of of .
On the other hands , Helen is very realsitic about death ;”thats where we all end p sooner o later” and that we are all “drunk divers” suggestng that we have little control of our own lives .