Societal Pressure to Maintain the ‘Perfect’ Body
Critically discuss this statement Throughout time there has been a fascination with constructing the ‘perfect’ human form. In Ancient Greece, the perfect muscular body was associated with an individual being a hero, a warrior and an athlete and was symbolic of one’s sense of arête or ‘full potential’ (Chaline, 2015). Within the Renaissance period, as demonstrated by Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, emphasis centred on physical […]