A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney – How Delaney Creates Sympathy

A concise resource exploring how Delaney creates sympathy for characters in A Taste of Honey.

This resource examines how humour, defensive dialogue, kitchen-sink realism, repeated abandonment, dramatic irony and the open ending shape audience sympathy, with activities to reinforce and practise key concepts and a detailed answer key.

Key features:

• Detailed analysis of how Delaney creates complex sympathy
• Focus on Jo, Helen and Geoffrey as flawed but sympathetic characters
• Coverage of key terms including kitchen-sink realism, dramatic irony and abandonment
• Varied comprehension, language analysis, interpretation and essay-planning activities
• Includes activities to reinforce and practise key concepts, with an answer key