To what actual historical facts does Swift refer when he says that thousands have ""suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end?""

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5 February, 21:49

To what actual historical facts does Swift refer when he says that thousands have ""suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end?""

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Randall Tyler · Answer 1

Conflicts between Catholics and the Protestants

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In the book, Gulliver's Travels, which was written by Jonathan Swift and published in 1726. Swift referred to the conflicts between Catholics and the Protestants when he says that thousands have "suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end." The sentence regarding the deaths of thousands of individuals who refuse to break the smaller ends of eggs is written in Part One of the book, which satirizes the long-standing religious conflict between Catholic France and Protestant England.