Screwtape Letter Summary

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The Screwtape letters written by C.S. Lewis a senior devil writing to his nephew on how to tempt a human.Screwtape,who is the senior devil, writes to his nephew, Wormwood, on tips and tricks and descriptions on the human mind and soul and how to twist feelings, thoughts and wants into sins.It becomes more and more difficult as time goes on and their patient becomes drawn to the light of God.Screwtape however is reluctant like many of the other Devils to simply let his nephew let go of the human.Screwtape shows clever subtlety in tempting patients to self-centeredness in prayer through feelings and images, to gluttony through delicacy, and to pide through membership in an elite Christian social circle. Screwtape is very clever and subtle n tempting the patient through or by using prayer and twisting images and feelings.Screwtape writes to Wormwood how even if his patient has joined Christianity and is now a follower that doesn’t …show more content…

The woman will never notice she is being a glutton because she asks for these things in small portions which to her equals that’s she's not a glutton.Screwtape writes "the real value of the quiet, unobtrusive works which Glubose has been doing for ears on this old woman can be gauged by the way in which her belly now dominates her whole life."(88)Screwtape says the patient is his mother's son and by the similarities they share they are able to tempt the patient to gluttony through

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