Another one of Foster’s criteria is that a good political piece of writing shows “the rights of the persons and the wrongs of those in power” (Foster, pg.117). This is shown through the fact that the boys that are not yielding any power have less opportunities and perks than the boys that in power. Sometimes the boys not in power have various concerns that by the end of the novel prove to be right, but they’re not paid attention to. In Lord of the Flies the boys who have come into power, specifically Jack and Roger, get too power hungry and instead of doing what is right they fill the island with corruption. They are given more to eat, they have better places to stay in, and they have caused violence when things have never gone their way. Through these examples this novel proves to be completely political through Foster’s criteria. Another criteria is that the writing engages the realities of the world, which could take up multiple meanings, one being that the novel, in a fictive matter, represents the world around it. In 1954, when the novel was published, Britain was post World War II and it is very possible that the novel could have been a response to the war and the politics …show more content…
It mentions the social rights and problems of the people, the corruption of those in power, and it “engages the realities of the