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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

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    The two stories that I related to and learned the most from were The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien and The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis. Both revealed things in myself that in some cases I already saw and pushed away, or that I never knew and helped me understand myself better. I will begin with The Hobbit. The character that I identified with was Bilbo. At the beginning of the story, Bilbo is cozy and comfortable with where he is. He doesn't want adventure even though there is a longing for it inside

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    thirty or more) including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, and The Four Loves. He brought fantasy and entertainment into his writing along with slight to thunderous bits of theology woven through his stories and books. This made Lewis one of the most influential Christian writers of the 20th century. One of the better known books from C.S. Lewis is The Screwtape Letters. The Screwtape Letters is a fiction book comprised of thirty-one letters from Screwtape, a senior tempter and head in

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    heinous. The patient in The Screwtape Letters and the characters in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas also go through these wars. Screwtape’s methods to tempt the patient in The Screwtape Letters are displayed in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas such as pride, selfishness, and conforming to the world. In the Bible it says, “One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.” (Easy Standard Version, Pr.29.23) In The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape tells Wormwood that he should

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    The book, The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, shows how Screwtape uses subtlety and psychology when he is tempting human beings into sin. He plays with the patient’s imagination, emotions, will, and intellect. Also, he shows great shrewdness when encouraging sin that does not appear to be sin. Screwtape shows effective psychology in encouraging the patient to displace intellect and will in prayer with imagination and emotion, and he shows subtlety in encouraging gluttony of delicacy, pride in humility

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    However, in The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis, using a series of letters from an experienced tempter to his protégé, makes the case that this is false. He portrays the devils as a perverted spirit, the opposite of a guardian angel. Unlike God who truly loves man and embraces his individuality, the devil’s main objective is to cultivate humans for food, consuming their uniqueness. “We want cattle who can finally become food… we want to suck in… we are empty and would be filled”[i] Screwtape, the demonic

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    In C.S. Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters, there have been many things learned from it. Firstmost, this is a spiritually driven novel, therefore, those things learned will be based on spiritual, mainly on the Christian faith. This book is about two demons with a nephew and uncle relationship. The demon Wormwood is having a particularly arduous tie trying to keep his subject from Christianity. The uncle Screwtape sends letters to Wormwood in hopes of helping the man stray away from faith and “The

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    I recently read The Screwtape Letter by C.S. Lewis, and the most striking thing I learned was that the devil does not put things in our mind, but rather lets us succumb to temptation on our own. In every instance of temptation, we must resist the urge to sin and grow closer to God. The devil wants us to distract and preoccupy ourselves in order to prevent us from seeing real life and God. Focuses on money, social success, and skepticism constitute this distraction. The devil wants you to focus so

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    True Reality – Theme of The Screwtape Letters Quotations Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. (The Enemy’s determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father to withdraw his support from Him). As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirits can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time

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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

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