Essay On Screwtape Letter

In the book, Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis wrote from the perspective of an experienced tempter, who gave advice on tempting humans to his young nephew, Wormwood. Being posed with the question: does C. L. Lewis’ style effectively warns the readers of Screwtape Letters of the methods that Satan uses, or does the style encourage us to be sympathetic to Screwtape or Wormwood? , I believe that Lewis’s style was an effective teaching method and there are three lessons that can be learned from the book: a lesson on prayer, a lesson on not worrying about the future and a lesson on gluttony.

Overall, in the book, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, there are some very strong and applicable points that I believe, should be shared as much as possible. For instance, in the entire book one, Lewis rambles on about the moral law of society, and the outcome of peoples over complicated ways of thinking. He mentions the so called standard of behavior, which it upheld by the thinker to believe that whatever way he sees the situation should be the right way, and however the situation is presented in his mind is how it should be played out. Lewis gives many diverse examples of this action such as, sharing a “bit of orange,” since I “gave you some of mine.”  the greed involved with the way of thinking is what Lewis called the law of nature.

Authored by C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters is a collection of writings addressed from Screwtape, the high-ranking assistant to Lucifer, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter. The letters contain examples of previous successful cases, and the advice of Screwtape to Wormwood about the soul of the “patient” to whom he was assigned. The patient, whom Wormwood was to corrupt, lived in England during World War II, and was converted to the Church of England as an adult. Consequently, he is constantly tormented by Wormwood through the directives of Screwtape, both of whom try to fill his life with immoralities in the midst of his newfound Christianity. In giving his advice to Wormwood, Screwtape shows clever subtlety in tempting patients to self-centeredness

Christians are called to participate in moral cultural activities by the nature of their relationship with Christ, but Lewis points out these activities can turn into sinful things. Lewis wrote a book called The Great Divorce in which the premise is people in hell come up to heaven for a short time and

The Screwtape Letters The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis is a satirical book that gives a face to spiritual warfare. The book is set in World War II era England (Lewis 9), a time of fear, uneasiness, and bleakness. It is written as the correspondence between two demons, Screwtape and Wormwood. Screwtape writes thirty letters to Wormwood, giving him instructions and detailed ideas on how best to tempt a man only known as “The Patient”.

Temptations Revealed The Screwtape Letters is a book by C.S. Lewis that was first published in 1942. It is a christian novel that deals with the issue of temptation and how to resist it. It is in the perspective of a demon and how to keep humans into converting into christianity. The two main characters are Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to his fellow clergymen and supporters as “A Call for Unity” as he sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. King had been placed under arrest due to participating in a peaceful march against segregation on property that he did not have permission to be on. During this time, in the 1960’s, the Southern part of the United States was ruled under the Jim Crow Laws which enforced legal segregation throughout the region. By using techniques such as self-presentation, emotional appeal and rational appeal, King is able to defend his non-violent strategy and resistance to the oppression and racism by declaring that people have the moral responsibility to break unjust laws in a peaceful manner. Using the rhetorical appeal

Connecticut farmer Nathan Cole was one such individual, “I dropt my tool that I had in my hand and ran home and run through my house and bade my wife get ready quick to go and hear Mr. Whitefield preach at Middletown.” Nathan was a believer in Christ who was brought to realize righteousness would not save him. The ‘New Light’s’ felt that the Old ways led to a general sense of complacency among the believers of Christ. George Whitefield states that these almost Christians have two states of mind about religion “that wavers between Christ and the world”. These people are tottering on the edge of sin as Jonathan Edwards tell us in the writing entitled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

Hey Jacob! I concur with you that through the book, C.S. Lewis exposes many different challenges faced by Christians. Many of these I did not even realize that we, as Christians, encounter. I am sure that our ignorance plays into the hands of Satan and benefits his scheme. The points you brought up were very intriguing, but I had trouble figuring out how some of them related to The Screwtape Letters.

In C.S. Lewis’ acclaimed “masterpiece,” The Screwtape Letters, an uncle and the devil’s worker by the name of Screwtape wrote an abundant amount of letters to his nephew, Wormwood. Both Screwtape and Wormwood are “tempters” who are trying to lead Wormwood’s “patient” into their “father’s home,” also known as hell. The Screwtape Letters, greatly told during a crucial time in Europe, portrays the main characters as imperfect, conflicting uncle and nephew, who’s biggest conflicting issue are themselves. The Screwtape Letters, written in the perspective of Screwtape, helped depict the three main characters’, Screwtape, Wormwood and “The Patient” personalities and actions throughout the story.

“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense. But the obedience which the enemy demands of men is quite a different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and his service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth.” (Screwtape letters pg. 37-38)

The reversal of the role of good and evil in C. S. Lewis’ novel presents God or the Enemy as the villain or antagonist of the novel. This is done by presenting Screwtape as morally right, posing God as the main adversary to both Screwtape and Wormwood, and the portrayal of God as an evil agency.

“The Screwtape Letters” is a novel written by C.S Lewis in 1942. The book is about a senior demon named Screwtape who writes letters to his young nephew demon Wormwood. The letters all consist of theological issues as well as Screwtape’s thoughts, experiences, recommendations and advice on them. Wormwords challenge at hand is to corrupt a British man, that they call the patient, away from Christianity and Heaven and into Hell. There are many challenges and situations that cross the patient’s life that both positive and negative effects for Wormwood.

How many Christians realize the two things that can happen to you while you are at your lowest point? We all remember the cartoons with the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. The Law of Undulation is a cycle of ups and downs in which the troughs, or downs, present the Enemy (God) the opportunity to strengthen the faith of the Christian while presenting Our Father Below (Satan) the opportunity to win the soul of the Christian. In the Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis gives the “Devil” side of the shoulder which is represented by the demon, Wormwood. Screwtape warns his nephew, Wormwood, that the Enemy (God) “wants them [Christians] to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there

Both shocking and amusing, CS Lewis’ creation “The Screwtape Letters” was a brilliant response to the creeping belief of atheism, existentialism and materialism of Lewis ‘time. The novel can capture the attention of an intellect that probably dismisses Christianity as a moral guide. Understanding the book is quite a challenge, because of its contents being morally reversed. As you read along the story, you would have to constantly remind yourself that the lord that they were pertaining to is ‘Satan’, and that evil way for them is good way for Christians. For example, Screwtape bemoans that that the Enemy has given human beings free will to choose the Good, and that God actually loves 'the human vermin'.