The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is about the humorous correspondence between Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood. Screwtape, a senior devil, attempts to teach Wormwood how to tempt a particular man, who was recently converted to Christianity, to go from Heaven to Hell. Wormwood consistently fails and Screwtape becomes increasingly agitated with him. Screwtape shows Lewis’ intent of this cautionary tale by boasting that Hell will be filled with ordinary people through such means as materialism, worldliness, and corruption.
"Writing a book is much less like creation than it is like planting a garden or begetting a child," revealed fantasist, scholar, and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis in Letters of C. S. Lewis; "in all ...
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November 29, 1898. Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father, Albert, was a lawyer, and his mother, Flora, the daughter of a clergyman. "My parents had only two children, both sons, and ...
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The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers.On November 29, 1898, Clive Staple...
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C. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has been well known f...
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Clive Staples Lewis's importance as an essayist is identifiable with, and to a great extent owing to, his role as a popular apologist for the Christian faith. His emergence from a successful but nonet...
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Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be...
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Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiogr...
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Biography EssayC. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has bee...
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The Screwtape Letters
Melissa Carpenter
I have tried to enjoy the extensive and strenuous time we have spent trying to get my patient's soul. I enjoyed being evil and I felt like I had power but no...
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Through these letters, Screwtape advises Wormwood on everything from coping with his patient's Christianity, mother, love life and even his viewpoint on the war. C.S. Lewis creatively intermingles ...
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In a thrilling book by C.S. Lewis, the author takes the reader on a compelling ride in which he shows how evil fights against good. The Screwtape Letters focuses on Screwtape, the teacher and Wormwood...
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While reading The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, it is apparent that there is a war between the God and the Devil. The Screwtape Letters is compiled of a series of letters addressed to Screwtape'...
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C.S. Lewis's Novel, The Screwtape Letters, helps you to see the world through the eyes of the devil. Screwtape is clever enough to influence and distort the imagination, emotion, and will of a human ...
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