The Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis, one of the greatest spiritual writers the world has known, wrote the Screwtape Letters to mock the evil works of the devil and give us an understanding of spiritual warfare that is constantly going on all around us. Many people refuse to believe their lives are being interfered with by spiritual forces, but it is not something that should be ignored. Lewis saw the importance in recognizing spiritual warfare in order to learn how to fight it, and that is one of his inspirations for writing

The tone of The Screwtape Letters is one of the most intriguing aspects of it’s style. The story is written from Screwtape’s point of view, so the tone showcases Screwtape’s personality. It is deceptively charming. Screwtape’s narration sounds like a cynical professor or an intelligent mentor (Johnson). Lewis laces the story with dark humor and sarcasm. This can be seen The tone is a unique blend of imagination and theology (Lewis 175). In addition to the tone, Lewis uses figurative language to

, which is making light of something that should be taken seriously, is a tactic Screwtape suggest soundly. It detaches the patient from the reality, making him callus. Although it may seem unimportant, in reality, Lewis explains that it can have great negative affects on people. Screwtape uses this form of humor to detach patients from reality, making them hard to the world around

The Screwtape Letters In C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape is writing to his nephew Wormwood about his “patient”, a human whom Wormwood is trying to tempt away from God’s grasp, and how he should approach this throughout the patient’s life in love, war, and Christianity. The Plot, Conflict, and Character portrayal are all aspect of the book that help it develop in a very interesting and free form way, causing the reader to decide what happened in between Screwtape’s letters. The plot

Screwtape and Foulgrin both have didactic tones, seeing how they are both trying to achieve the same goal; teach intermediate tempters how to make their patients fail. Both demons spend the entirety of each book giving detailed instruction. In The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape gives his nephew, Wormwood plenty of advice. For example, in letter three Screwtape says, “I am very pleased by what you tell me about this man’s relations with his mother. But you must press your advantage (Lewis 11).” Lord

In The Screwtape's Letter, two demons, Screwtape and Wormwood, uses freedom, emotion, and future to secure the death of their human "patients." Screwtape typically characterizes humanity as being foolish. He thinks his strategies can easily manage the humans and can change their entire life. At beginning of the book, Screwtape explains the difficulties that human faces in their lives. Because humans have free-will, they constantly make decisions between good and evil, or between God and Satan

C.S. Lewis once wrote "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them." Throughout history mankind has struggled, relentlessly, to put this concept into perspective. Lewis, a well respected Christian author, thought it appropriate to develop a work that would help individuals "grasp the notion of devils." "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S.

The Screwtape letters is another great work of Lewis where he uses imagination to explain the truth upside down through letters between two devils. It is like reverse psychology in a way for example if something is good in Screwtape then it is bad in reality or if something is a setback it is actually a victory in struggles against evil ( Brown 177). Lewis then talked about his idea of the 'devil'; he does not believe the devil is the opposite force against God, rather he says it is angels that have

Rewriting the Concept of Hell in Dante's Inferno The idea of making up a "Hell", or inferno, is not an experience in which I, even in my wildest thoughts, had started to imagine. Call me an optimist, but the idea of imagining Hell never appealed to me. However, as I read through the Bible, I have come across many images of hell and will now attempt to create a partial picture. As I sit imagining my inferno, I see that it would be significantly different from Dante’s inferno. I do agree that

What a Tragedy! The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a satirical comedy about a demon, Wormwood, who tries to influence the behavior of his patient. The letters are written to Wormwood by his uncle, Screwtape. Wormwood’s ultimate goal by influencing the patient’s actions is to ensure that he will end up in hell. Though Wormwood tries his best to excel in every task he is assigned, he usually ends up failing. As a result of Wormwood’s failures, Screwtape provides him with helpful advice that comes