The central conflict
The central conflict
Honour Killing explores the speaker’s struggle with identities imposed by country, faith, marriage and gender. One reading of the title is that the speaker turns the idea of an honour killing around: she symbolically discards the roles that have confined her.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 2.2.14 Honour Killing by Imtiaz Dharker. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.