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Summary: Letter 28 The War is relevant, writes Screwtape, only in that it affects the Patient’s state of mind. The mere fact of air raids on the Patient’s town should be, for Wormwood, beside the point. Wormwood should be trying to keep the Patient alive.The Screwtape Letters, then, can be read as a mirroring of Milton’s project, or rather, what Lewis takes Milton’s project to be: an explication of Christian morality from the perspective of the evil, not the good.The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written. Now, for the first time, The Screwtape Letters is presented with its full text alongside helpful annotations provided by Lewis enthusiast and dramatist Paul McCusker.
In the eleventh chapter of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, Uncle Screwtape teaches Wormwood about human laughter. Some types of laughter such as what arises from joy or fun are only useful to.Chapter 2 Screwtape takes the church as an example where Wormwood can cause confusion by getting his patient so focused on the immediate and “real” that he loses sight of the transcendent. The Church is both more and less than the immediate manifestation of any one time and place.
In the fourth letter, Screwtape talks about how people think that the devils are giving them sinful thoughts. In reality, however, Screwtape notes that this is an understatement and that the devils are actually tasked with making sure a person’s mind remains empty and void of any type of thought.
