Analüüs Swifti kirjandusest inglise keeles
The novel further describes an intraLilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally,
Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput had
decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end. The differences between BigEndians (those who
broke their eggs at the larger end) and LittleEndians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one
Emperor lost his life, and another his crown".
The BigEndian/LittleEndian controversy reflects, in a much simplified form, British quarrels over
religion. England had been, less than 200 years previously, a Catholic (BigEndian) country; but a
series of reforms beginning in the 1530s under King Henry VIII (ruled 15091547), Edward VI (1547
1553), and Queen Elizabeth I (15581603) had converted most of the country to Protestantism (Little
Endianism), in the episcopalian form of the Church of England. At the same time, revolution and
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