Comparison Of Romeo And Juliet And Ender's Game

Romeo and Juliet and Ender's Game are two works of literature that explore the themes of love and war in different ways. While Romeo and Juliet is a classic tragic love story set in Renaissance Italy, Ender's Game is a science fiction novel set in a distant future where humanity is at war with an alien race. Despite the differences in setting and genre, both works examine the complexities of human relationships and the cost of conflict.
There are certain themes that the reader can observe while reading these two novels; violence in the family is a very visible theme due to the fact that Ender's own brother is the most violent character in the story and the Montagues and Capulets are two families who hold a violent grudge against each other.

In Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, lying is an extremely effective theme and the reader can see this when Graff says to Ender: "it had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it." Graff says this after he lies to Ender to about the training just being simulations, he told Ender that all the buggers he was killing was just computer generated and wasn't real but in reality Ender was unwillingly and unknowingly killing millions of buggers and pretty much erasing the whole race; This affects Ender heavily causing him to go into an enraged state after realising he was just like his psychotic and murderous brother. There is a similarity between this and in Romeo and Juliet when Friar Lawrence lies to the Capulet family about Juliet's death which had great impact on many characters such as Paris and Romeo, Paris ends up duelling Romeo ultimately resulting in the fate of Paris, after this Romeo ends up going to see Juliet to kill himself and end up dead lying next to Juliet. Friar lies by saying "now heaven hath all, And all the better is it for the maid. Your part in her you could not keep from death, But heaven keeps his part in eternal life." (4.5. 67-70), he is saying that she is dead and in heaven but she is actually just faking being dead. These similarities relate because of how they impact the future decisions of the main