We often find a three-piece set in literature, speeches, and movies. Oh! I have just used the three-piece set: literature, speeches and movies. I used the set because it’s more rhythmical to use three things to give examples of media. But some sophisticated writers add other elements to rule of three and make sentences more powerful and memorable like Ursula Le Guin did.
There is rule of three not only in English but also in Japanese. For example, fairy tales such as Momotaro and Sanmai-no-ofuda. In both English and Japanese books, there are usually trios (mostly two boys and one girl or siblings). The most famous example is Harry, Ron and Hermione. Also, there are lots of proverbs related to three; What had happened twice will happen three times (nidoarukoto-wa-sandoaru), Preseverance prevails (Ishi-no-uenimo-sannen) and so on. Three seems to be a basic point of things and generally a symbol of something powerful or good.
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I laughed at your comment on The Wrath of Titans because my mother told me the same comment. And, don't you like The Lord of the Rings so much? I like the actors of the movies and its ending. But I don’t remember the details because I watched them nearly ten years ago, so I will watch again.
We watched through all three DVD's for the Lord of the Rings. I think they are pretty good movies. My wife kept saying 'so that's where J.K. Rowling got her ideas!' Similarities between Harry and LOTR are not so visible in the books, but in movie representation, very noticeable.
返信削除Nice examples for the rule of 3.