Ohhh so you crack your egg from the bottom...
In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift, he uses many satirical methods to criticize topics of 18th century English society and some of these topics even apply to today's society. However, I believe that Swift’s greatest satirical effect comes when he mocks the dumb reasons for which conflict occurs and how war in general is stupid. When Gulliver, the protagonist, first travels to Laputa, he learns about the two opposing parties— Lilliputians and Blefuscu—and their different belief in how eggs should be cracked (right side up or right side down). It goes to the extent of the two parties fighting over this egg-streme crisis. Sorry, I had to. Anyways, Swift's objective when writing about the Lilliputians vs the Blefuscu is to show the reader that people’s reasons for conflict are often stupid and how war can be bad. Another example of Swift satirizing these skirmishes is when Gulliv...