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The Screwtape Letters Essay

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The Screwtape Letters, by C.S Lewis, provides a very refreshing and unusual view on the internal Christian struggle with human nature and spiritual warfare; therefore; it offers itself as a guide to Christians even today on how to resist the temptations of the devil and his servants.
The Novel The Screwtape Letters is divided into 31 separate letters, each written as a letter from a high-ranking demon, Screwtape; to his demon-in-training nephew Wormwood. Each letter varies in aggression, topic, and advice given. Considering this is a line of communication between two demons, whose goal is to corrupt humans into giving in to their human nature, this book is an anti-guide for Christians. Despite being written during the mid-20th century, this …show more content…

Lewis himself is known as one of the most reluctant converts to ever live, by his own admission actually. His original journey was going out to disprove God as a rather hard-core atheist. However, the more he read, the more he found. Eventually against his will and wishes, he couldn’t deny the truth of God any longer and he converted to Catholicism.
J.R.R. Tolkien was the key to Lewis’ conversion. Lewis actually used all the truth and spiritual advice given to him by Tolkien, flipped on it its head, twisted it, and contorted it into the opposite advice. He did that, then wrote The Screwtape Letters with that reversed advice. (Andrea Monda, The Conversion Story of C. S. Lewis) C.S. Lewis wrote from his lived experience. This means, of course, that almost blow-for-blow, The Screwtape Letters is the exact guide to help Christians to know what their demonic enemies are playing at.
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a guide to Christians on how to resist the temptations of the devil and his servants. It could be debated that it was done purely for satire, but that would be with the assumption that Lewis wasn’t a believer, which he indeed was. On top of the stretch of an assumption that would need to be made in order to assume that

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