Year 6 Lit sample para

Can u see the satirical effect?

In Book One, Swift registers his hatred of war via the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu. In the story, Lilliput wages war on Blefuscu as the two cannot agree on which end of the egg to break when eating it. By deliberately trivializing the reason over which the two countries go to war, Swift is trying to show us the foolishness and absurdity of war. This is especially so when we take into account the disproportionately high casualty rate of ‘thirty thousand of our best seamen and soldiers’. The fact that the Lilliputians readily sacrifice so many people to wage a ‘bloody war’ for ‘six and thirty moons’ over such a trivial cause is truly incredulous, even laughable. Swift’s attitude towards war could not be clearer.