Analysis Of The Screwtape Letters By C. S. Lewis

I appreciate the author’s attempt to fully submerse herself back into an adolescent mindset in order to understand the complex issues of masculinity, sexuality and gender

I would recommend, “The Pact: Three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream” to eleventh grade students for several reasons. First factor, throughout this whole novel it gives you a wakeup call. For example, life in college is not that easy as you think, they got in to a lot of trouble, and throughout all that they were given a second chance in life. Second factor, Depicts transition from high school to college. They knew college is different from high school because of their own experience. They struggled throughout college, they financially couldn’t pay their books and other stuff they need to fro their classes. Then, this novel teaches you life lessons. Throughout this novel you will see how hard they had it and they still chased

Could anyone feel sympathy for a groveling, sly demon? The demons did have a hard job, but it was a despicable job of choice. In The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, Screwtape busily instructs his nephew, Wormwood, who scrambles to trip up his “patient,” and bring the man to hell. Throughout the book, everyone should plainly realize that neither Screwtape nor Wormwood deserved pity or sympathy in the least. The first reason for this is that the demons’ malevolence revealed itself plainly in the book. Secondly the demons’ hate for all that is good and innocent reared its ugly head, snarling in the reader’s face. Finally, the pitiable, vile, cruel plans of the demons wiped out any lingering sympathetic feelings in the reader. The demons were purely cruelty.

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In The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis utilizes his character Screwtape to depict and essentially recommend three specific categories of temptation that humans typically fall into, which are the World, the Flesh, and the Spirit. In that order, the three categories overlap, meaning in the World is the flesh and in the Flesh is the Spirit. The Bible, my strongest point of reference, bares insight into what the temptations of the World are and why God considers them to be fatally corrupt. 1 John 2:15-17 reads “don’t love the worlds ways. Don’t love the worlds goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world- wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important- has nothing to do with the Father. It just

I would definitely read something by Ayn Rand again. This was an easy book to read because it was shorter and did not spend pages describing redundant or insignificant detail. While the narrator spoke in terms of we instead of I, this did not complicate the story, but instead greatly emphasized how the people in this dystopian world were taught to think. I believe that this book is on the AP list because of its use of the pronoun we instead of I which shows depth to the story even though, to the readers eyes, it seems incorrect to speak in such a way. The part I will remember most is when Equality 7-2521 discovers the word I and is able to express the things he never knew how. He is able to refer to directly to himself and feel more control over his life. This is possible because he is finally able be his own

In The Screwtape Letters by C.S.Lewis, the novel is from the perspective of Screwtape, who is writing letters to his nephew. Screwtape shows clever subtlety in tempting patients to self-centeredness in prayers through feelings and images, to gluttony through delicacy, and to pride through membership in an elite Christian social circle. Screwtape uses many, seemingly good, things to manipulate his ‘patients.’ Lewis uses this as an illustration of how easily humans can fall into temptation. Screwtape uses pride, and intellect as a form of temptation throughout the novel, even while the patient is a Christian.

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In C.S. Lewis’s, The Screwtape letters, the narrator expresses to his protégé, that it is easier to confuse and disorient someone who is exposed to “propaganda” compared to the one who engages in “argument.” Propaganda, sometimes referred as jargon, are the thoughts, images, or words that can result in an emotional reaction to emerge from the thinker. The thinker rarely will think rationally of these reactions, causing them not to think critically of these things. Argument opposes jargon, insofar as they are well thought out and rational statements that are meant to reveal an idea of the truth. When constructing an argument, one dwells in rational thought all the while, putting their feeling aside for the sake of knowledge and learning. The

When I think of ways the Devil tries to destroy my relationship with the Lord, my thoughts usually retreat to the seemingly larger hardships we may face: loss, rejection, addiction, and so on. Things like mild annoyances and small disagreements fail to come to mind. In the first four letters of Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape tells his nephew to use small hindrances to distract the character known as the ‘patient’. His goal is to lead this newly reformed Christian astray. Screwtape goes on to tell Wormwood, ‘- hundreds of these adult converts have been reclaimed after a brief sojourn in the Enemy’s camp and are now with us.” This quote serves as a reminder that Christians are not safe from temptations and hardships once they become

C.S. Lewis is one of the greatest authors in history. His books are still widely available and sold to many interested readers. In Lewis’ childhood, he experienced a tragedy that affected his belief in god; in his middle life, he mainly focused on college and his studies, but his father’s death played a role in Lewis later becoming a Christian. In Lewis’ later life, he married one of his own fans. Clive’s passion for writing began when he was a small child, and it continued to grow as he furthered his education to become a college professor at Oxford University. Lewis is still remembered today for his great works, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a popular series among children.

My book was Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. This book was peculiar because of its perspective on the world of demons. Starting to read the book showed me how mysterious but how organized CS Lewis makes this realm be. This book was first published in the February 1942. The book is set in the World War 2 era. The two main demons in the book are; senior demon Screwtape and Mr. Wormwood. The book is letters from Screwtape to Mr. Wormwood. The book refers to the father as Satan and the enemy as God. The conflict in this story is the demons are trying to tempt or destroy the patient’s (human being who is a British Christian) relationship (knowledge of God.) I believe he wrote it to relate and give a perspective on demons. I think he was trying to

The Plot of “The Screwtape Letters,” by C. S. Lewis is interesting because it displays many themes relating closely to our daily lives. In “The Scretape Letters” there are four main characters- Screwtape, Wormwood, “the patient,” and “the woman” The plot of the story is a description of the everyday work of a demon taking over the life of an average human. Throughout the story Wormwood, screwtape’s nephew, is attempting to acquire the soul of “the patient’ for the duration of his life. We see only from the viewpoint of Screwtape, viewing only his opinions. During the plot “the patient” goes through many trails and tribulations just as Wormwood did, trying to gain a soul.

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As you read C.S. Lewis’ novel, The Screwtape Letters, you realize that Screwtape seems to have very little understanding of God and doesn’t really understand what God actually stands for. Screwtape doesn’t understand why God actually cares for man the way he does. He states that “the truth is I slipped by mere carelessness into saying that the Enemy really loves the humans. That, of course, is an impossibility….” (Lewis). By Screwtape saying “….he is one being, they are distinct from Him. Their good cannot be His. All His talk about Love must be a disguise for something else”, this gives the reader insight into what Screwtape really thinks about God's relationship with man. The reader can see that Screwtape can’t fathom the relationship God