Screwtape Letters Essay

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The Screwtape letters is from the perspective of demons. The screwtape letters is put together by 31 letters from a devil named Scretape. In the letters, Screwtape gives his nephew advice as he tries to get the soul of a human being, which they call the patient. In the beginning of the book, the patient has just be converted to Christianity. All through the book,Screwtape is trying to help Wormwood lead the patient away from God. He energizes his nephew's victories, recommends different and envious approaches to enter the man's mind and impact him, and censures Wormwood for his disappointments as the patient starts going to church, experiences different high points and low points of confidence, becomes hopelessly in love with a Christian young lady, and is called to benefit in the War. With everything taken into account, the letters and "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," the last part of the book, are a witty and preventative critique on the condition of the advanced human soul. At to start with, Uncle Screwtape is fatherly with his nephew Wormwood and very liberal. He helps Wormwood out and gives him advice about how to inconspicuously entice an individual far from considerations of God and one's neighbors toward musings of self, realism, uncertainty, weakness, and denial of the presence of God. During this journey, Wormwood does …show more content…

At the end of the book we see that wormwood ended up turning in Screwtape to the police. This story is something that the whole world should read because it shows that we need to pray daily that God keep us away from the temptation that comes our way. In the book, once the patient became a Christian, the demons were trying really hard to attack him and get into his mind. 1Peter 4:12 says, “12 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to

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