Do Now: View the following clips with the class. Write a journal entry discussing your reaction to the clips: What are these videos saying about the message that society sends people about what is beautiful? How do these videos challenge the notion of societal standards of beauty? Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Evolution * Onslaught Self-Esteem * * = best to use in class

Renaissance Beauty 15th Century

Elizabethan Beauty 16th Century

Victorian Beauty 19th Century

Turn of the Century 1890-1910

Jazz Age 1920’s

Post Depression 1930’s Bette Davis

The War Years 1940’s Betty Grable

Post War Beauty 1950’s

1960’s Model Twiggy

1970’s Farah Fawcett

1980’s 1980’s

1990’s 1990’s Kate Moss

Post Millennium

Today

Discussion Questions What is your standard of beauty? Do cultural ideals effect your perception of what is considered “beautiful”? How are these cultural standards unfair? How can you challenge these standards? How have ideals changed since Shakespeare’s time?

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; SONNET 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

Identify 8 PARTICULAR WAYS that Shakespeare’s lover differs from the Elizabethan standard of beauty. Explain the IRONIC TWIST in the final two lines of the poem. What do you think Shakespeare’s message was about beauty standards in his time? How is this message still relevant today?