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Screwtape Letters Summary

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"One road leads home, and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness" (Lewis). Lewis saw this truism in action during his travels to RAF bases during World War II. He would speak, but more importantly, listen to the young soldiers and their chaplains. It is during these visits that many speculate he developed a clear understanding of the slippery spiritual battles invading the average person. Here, at the end of The Screwtape Letters, Lewis is now flipping the narrative. It is not the Patient who is undulating between spiritual success and failures, but Screwtape who is all too aware of the victory his Enemy has achieved. Wormwood failed to fulfill the plan given to him by Screwtape in the time allotted. In the end, he fails to bring the patient into their grasp because of the Patient’s death during a bombing executed by the Germans. With this loss by Wormwood, Screwtape makes it clear that he will torture Wormwood and ultimately devour him. C.S. Lewis completes his moral and spiritual tale on an enigmatic note as a means to let the reader reflect back on his or her own life in order to: become cognizant of Satan’s tactics, gain knowledge that all humans are “patients” in the Devil’s schemes or “Sons of God” from God’s perspective, should they choose …show more content…

Screwtape holds on to the belief that victory is theirs, not only because he does not understand the gift of true love, but also because of his innate nature- that of a deceiver, even one who deceives

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