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about his argument regarding fan fiction and Ben-Hur’s popularity?
• Henry Bial states that a fan fiction allows an individual to “explore and expand upon the biblical narrative in some interesting ways” (page 14). Not only they can change ideas in the story but the structure, plot, or character will remain true to the original idea. This strategy can be used to change a scene or plot to accommodate the audience, or problems. I certainly like this take on his argument regarding the fan fiction and Ben -Hur. Ben Hur is this popular theater performance based on Lew Wallace novel thanks to the creative changes on it. When the play was beginning, people were criticizing harshly about how no one can Jesus because no one get capture his essence. This was solved by using a beam of light to represent him. It was a big change compared to the originally story but it still captured the meaning of the scene. The creativity used to achieve a bible to staging it is incredible as it motivate people to not only stay loyal to the original content but to take a new form of it as well.
2. In what ways was Ben-Hur a spectacle? How was the spectacle accomplished? …show more content…

There were a few problem in developing the spectacle during the development. One problem was getting an actor to represent the image of god/jesus in a play about religion. Some problem arises from people saying that not only a person cannot represent an individual who is not a god or worship an object, due to religious reason, and cannot capture the aroma/essence of Jesus himself. To address this issue, they used a beam of light to represent the Christ while having a choir, chariots, etc in the background to represent it. These production received good reviews by critics based on the production of the

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