Romeo and Juliet | Class 13: Cross-Curriculum Discussion on Ideal Beauty

Lecture Topic: The “Ideal Beauty”

Ask students to show their photographs and either explain or read what they have written as homework from Class 12, focusing on what specific qualities, in their opinion (or society’s opinion), make a woman physically attractive. Although responses will vary, there are always cultural ideals of what constitutes a “beautiful woman.”

The Renaissance was no exception, although the idealized woman had a deeper meaning than just being pleasing to the eye. Virtue and beauty were closely linked. Beauty drew men to love, and love...

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