Question

Lesson-Gulliver's Travels, Excerpt Swift satirized the conflict between using "high heels" and "low heels." A. the Irish and the English B. the Whigs and the Tories C. the English and the French D. the Protestants and the Catholics

Answer 1

I think it is B. the Whigs and the Tories. 

Answer 2

Answer:

B. the Whigs and the Tories

Explanation:

In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver encounters two political parties when he arrives to Lilliput: the high heels and the low heels. The high heels are those who support Lilliput's constitution and the Emperor. The low heels, on the other hand, are the party in power. Swift wants the reader to connect the Tories with the high heels (he himself was a Tory) and the low heels with the Whigs. During Swift's time, King George I was sympathetic to Whigs in the same way that the Emperor of Lilliput was sympathetic to the low heels.