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This 4 page paper discusses the Screwtape Letters, including the devil's overall strategy for gaining souls and some of the specific advice Uncle Screwtape gives to nephew Wormwood. An emphasis is on relationships. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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their edition of this book for proper and accurate citations.] The Screwtape Letters is collection of 31 letters written by experienced devil Uncle Screwtape to his nephew Woodworm, a
devil in training. The theme of the letters is how to win a human soul and keep it until the humans physical death. The backdrop is World War II. Humans
being attacked by the devil are called patients. Uncle Screwtapes letters are in response to the nephews letters, which are not included. The reader, however, knows what Wormwood wrote because
Screwtape always explains the content of the letters received. Screwtape is an experienced devil training younger novices to capture souls for Our Father Below. As such he sometimes compliments Wormwood
and sometimes criticizes him for being naive. For example, in the first letter, Screwtape criticizes Wormwood because he boasts about guiding his patient to the knowledge that materialism exists. Screwtape
tells his nephew this strategy would have worked hundreds of years ago but not in the present era. He explains that in the present world, humans deal with conflicting philosophies
daily, they know materialism is a fact and the patient needs to be convinced to strive towards this state of being. Uncle Screwtape tells Wormwood to work on muddling or
befuddling the human patient, to work on making the human feel confused. One example would be to constantly guide the patient to thoughts of wanting more and becoming jealous when
friends have more material things than he has. Relationships play a key role in the themes presented - the relationship between one devil and another, the relationship between God and
His followers, the relationships between and among humans are all prominent. The Letters suggest the relationship between God humans is one that is unfathomable; consider, for instance, how God forgives
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