Ben-Hur Reflection on culture

From Ben-Hur, I've learned more about Roman culture. Hereunder are some aspects I've learned and analyzed;  

a. Religion- I think that Roman people didn't believed in Christian at the beginning, but some people converted their religion to Christian after they witnessed the miracle of Jesus Christ, because there was one scene of the movie, Jesus Christ saved Ben-Hur's mother and sister, and taught Ben-Hur to learn from forgiveness. Moreover, Ben-Hur was like Job in the Bible, he was tested through different harsh life experiences.

b. Costume- The male characters in the movie all dressed in short robs, and had shepherd long gowns, and wore headscarves. As for the female characters, they dressed long robs, even touched to the ground, and they had headscarves when they were out. The most interesting and characteristic is the warriors' outfit, they had helmets, shorts, and spear and shield in hands, which made them look pretty bravely.  

c. Architecture- The great and magnificent Colosseum, there were many tall arches , the platforms with stairs, which could content a great many of audiences, different kinds of pathways for people and animals to enter and exist the Colosseum. Moreover, the techniques of sculpture and carving. On the scene of the banquet of the commander adopted Ben- Hur as his son. I saw many columns with many breathtaking craving artworks on the top of them, 

it made me feel very luxurious.  

d. Decoration- From different scenes, the kitchenware that Roman people used were very dedicated and they looked priceless, like the wine container they used to drink wine were bronze-made, even the oil-lantern, they looked pretty heavy.Obviously, Roman people like to use Bronze ware in their daily life.

e. Charioteer- the horse-wagon racing in Colosseum, its brutality represents part of Roman culture. Like Messala was killed from this kind of racing based on Ben-Hur's revenge. But personally I really think it's far too cruel and inhumane. 

f.Slavery- When Ben-Hur became a slave, which made me realize that slaves had 

no freedom at all, they were simply part of their masters' property, and they couldn't stop working, when I saw that scene of the ship was on fire, I felt very sorry for those slaves. 

g.Currency- From the scene, many people were betting on the result of the horse wagon racing, they used "gold"and "sliver", which should be their currency at that time.