The Screwtape Letters Analysis

One author is prevalent amongst all others in a fight against the established standards of the Christian faith. His strategy destabilizes the positions of many and strengthens his standpoint. Lewis's strategy starts with a simple story and then uses the elements of the story to help the reader form an opinion on an issue. This is most prevalent in his nonfiction works. C.S. Lewis wields his style of writing to convey moral truth to a modern age of people who oppose his ideas. Lewis starts his essays, nonfiction stories, and other pieces with a blank slate that has nothing more than some simple characters and a setting. The persuasive power and rhetorical style of C. S. Lewis starts to show when he develops a plot and applies attributes to
In The Screwtape Letters, the story is stylized to be read as a series of letters sent to a devil's nephew. The devil's knowledge of what is wrong with humanity is imparted to his nephew through the letters, and at the same time the reader receives C.S. Lewis's views of humanity in the modern age. The true cleverness of the book is that it presents Lewis's ideas as a satirical criticism of humanity. C.S. Lewis writes in the letters exactly how to bring men to their knees through tactics that take advantage of the human nature. Simultaneously, the reader is attacked by the devil's strategy to bring the worst out in people. Who would argue that if the demons of hell use a human weakness drag people to the fiery depths, it is okay to embrace this weakness? C.S. Lewis intended this structure and the reader can't argue against him because the book is written as a series of letters between demons, not as a direct message from Lewis about what people should and shouldn't
Lewis's end goal beyond convincing Sci-Fi readers of society's corruption? It may be described as a better future or an educated populace, but an age of modern thinking returned to its Christian origins would be most accurate because C.S. Lewis was a passionate follower of Arthurian texts. He wanted modern thinking to return to medieval thinking of the Arthurian. "The label of 'closet Arthurian' suits Lewis for two reasons: his Arthurian works tend to be little known and seldom studied today, and documentary evidence of his passion for the legend of King Arthur survives in his private letters and diary entries" (Tolhurst 140). The obvious dedication to Arthurian texts shows Lewis's resolve to revert society to a time when his moral code was a normality amongst the