Gulliver's journey to Lilliput and Blefuscu in Part I is a close allegory of the political events of the last years of Queen Anne's reign and the first years of George I's. In Lilliput, Home Politics are depicted as a struggle between courtiers wearing High Heels and Low Heels, comparable to the Whig and Tory parties of Britain. As well, 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 resisted the king's edict to change the end they break, civil war resulted. Thus, in a supposedly foreign setting, 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.
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