... . The great war between Lilliput and Blefuscu, is representative of the war between England and France. The war started because the present King's grandfather once cut himself breaking the egg on the big end, so the King at that time, passed a law that all people were to break their eggs on the ... When part of the population resists the edict to change the end they break, civil war results (I:4;4). Thus Swift satirized the religious schism created by Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church, leading eventually to the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Today, the term...

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