Again, it's not uncommon at all for works of art to feature politics to a large level. The Count of Monte-Cristo is a large scaled indictment of the July Monarchy. HG Wells said countless times that ''The War of the Worlds'' was an allegory for colonialism. Before it became fashinoable to use ''Ride of the Walkyrie'' to show helicopters machine gunning Asians, ''Heart of Darkness'' was a charge against Leopold II.