Theme Of The Screwtape Letter

Selfless, Undeserving, and Transcendental

C. S. Lewis’s satiric novel The Screwtape Letters is a series of letters written by a demon named Screwtape in response to letters from his nephew, who is also a demon, Wormwood, advising Wormwood on how best to tempt a human on earth to Hell. In this novel, Satan is often referred to as ‘Our Father Below’ and God is often referred to as ‘the Enemy.’ Mr. Edward Myers describes the novel in a review of several of Lewis’s works:

The Screwtape Letters (from an elderly devil in Hell to a young fiend on earth) are full of advice from Screwtape to Wormwood about how to lead his human "patient" into sin. They are allegories only to the extent that, being from the fiendish and not the human point of view,

For this very reason, many themes abound in this novel, meant to teach lessons about humanity, God, and many other topics. One major overarching theme is the theme of love. In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis shows that God’s love for man is like that of a father for his children, but greater and undeserved, and that God wants man to love each other as He has loved them, but also that human love often fails to live up to God’s standard. Through this, Lewis gives readers a picture of what God’s love is and reminds Christians of God’s standard for human

Through all this, Lewis presents readers with a picture of God’s love and reminds Christians of God’s standard for human love. As previously shown, Lewis shows God’s love of man to be an incomparable, undeserving love. He gives a good, in-depth, and emotional picture of what God’s love is. Lewis is also reminding Christians that God has set a standard for their love, and that they and many others often fall short of this. He brings about a sense of conviction with this by having Christians think about this standard and how the way they love stands with or falls short of