The methods of selecting members of parliament are different from any other nation too, at least they first appear to be. In order to be chosen as a member of parliament, the person must play a game, a combination of limbo and high-jump. The winner of this game receives the higher office. While no one in Europe played a game to become elected, they didn't choose public officers on skill, but rather on how well the candidate could line the right pockets with money. At this point in time, Gulliver hasn't realized that by seeing the absurdity of the Lilliputians" traditions, that he might see the absurdity in European ones. With this, Swift satirizes the conditions and politics of Europe.
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In Lilliput (Part I), Gulliver learns of a schism over the question of whether to break soft-boiled eggs at the small or big end. 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 terms refer generally to any conflict over trivial differences, adhered to with religious zeal. Adherents in a modern computing conflict over byte order in messages have actually self-identified themselves as "Big-Endians" and "Little-Endians." (See On Holy Wars And A Plea For Peace" by Danny Cohen.) .
Gulliver leaves his wife, who does not question him, and ends up on the isle of the Lilliputians, near Madagascar. There he is bound up and taken as prisoner of tiny people, only six inches in height. He proves these people that he is not only a genteel servant but he is quite a disgusting pig, seeing nothing wrong on urinating all over. What's so wrong with that? But Gulliver's disgusting ways .
are not the mind grabber. Look at the Lilliputians: they are petty little buggers making their govermental officials do tricks to get elected.