Summary Read a Plot Overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis. Lewis, it has been confirmed that the Germans intend to invade the town where the patient lives. God encourages free will, love of neighbors and genuine faith.

GradeSaver, 10 March 2017 Web. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. The readers however are soon made aware of the sarcasm behind the warmth and this is foreshadowing of Wormwood’s fate. The tenth letter introduces the readers to The Married Couple.

“It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy’s clutches.” The fact that this goes both ways makes me ever so more sure that apologetics can only go so far. Humans, but most especially modern humans, he expounds have an unexplainable obsession for new things, a desire that he considers absurd because things are by their very nature completely neutral.

These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. The letter ends with him explaining that the punishment for failing to accomplish his task, which was to corrupt The Patient and turn him to sin, is to be eaten alive--by none other than the eponymous Screwtape--a task that he looks forward to accomplishing with great gusto. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt. He counsels his nephew to whisper into our Patient’s ears (that’s how tempting works, if you didn’t know) things such as: “you are better than your fellow churchgoers…,” “you have smart friends…,” “they don’t question the things you do…” “you are the best, and they are the worst…”, (We imagine it must have looked something like this…). He informs Screwtape that he should make it his objective to move The Patient to harbor hate for the Germans and mask that hate under the guise of patriotism and love for his community. At the end of the day your spiritual state of being is not dependent on the information you ingest, but the state of your heart. Ironically, all of these suggestions for angles of attack and utilizing situations for their purposes drives Screwtape admit to the difficulty of the task, stating that no matter what method they use humanity has a way of embracing God and faith. Anyone can earn credit-by-exam regardless of age or education level. Jesus said that you cannot serve two masters because you can only really focus on one (Matthew 6:24). Screwtape instructs Wormwood to make a list of all the young women in the Patient’s neighborhood that would prove to be bad marriages matches for the Patient. Screwtape advises Wormwood to exploit the Patient’s uncertainty, and soon, there is a period of relative inactivity during the war. The Patient’s mother is difficult.

In this lesson, Screwtape sets Wormwood straight. This chapter shifts to a consideration of the sin of lust. He is chided to stick to his tempting duties rather than revel in his success, as people are mercurial beings shuttling often between bouts of depression and periods of elation. Screwtape is frustrated that Wormwood’s patient has become a Christian and now feels he can’t be influenced by his uncle.

Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, chapters 30 31 summary. This chapter uses simple and fun videos that are about five minutes long, plus includes lesson quizzes and a chapter exam to ensure you understand the essential concepts associated with The Screwtape Letter's chapters. If you haven’t yet., be sure to read my introduction to the Screwtape Letters. The young man has had a conversion experience, and Screwtape is critical of how Wormwood let things get out of control. Screwtape’s approach focuses on how men and women perceive sacrifices in a marriage.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. That way, Wormwood can use the Patient’s whole life to tempt him away from the Enemy and into sin.

Screwtape knows that the nature and desires of humanity often supercede what they believe to be right and wrong. This love for all things new and modern, he reasons, prompts people to forsake Christianity because they feel that it is out of vogue and they would be willing to discard it in favor or more “modern” modes of thinking. Men may be lead to do things they don’t want out of an appearance of unselfishness, which can cause resentment later. Lewis. But then the Patient dies during an air raid on his town. The war rages once again and The Patient is drafted to fight and this development alarms Screwtape greatly. What's special about Shortform: Sound like what you've been looking for? Once he was outside and in the “real world” his sense of practicality returned, never to leave him again. Now, we suppose Wormwood wasn’t able to tempt the Patient Devil’s-Advocate-style, so what he actually does is a list of all the young women in the neighborhood who may be a bad fit for our Christian guy. This lesson will take us through the recovery plan when a patient returns to the Enemy camp. Unfortunately, Screwtape clears his name before the Hell’s secret police, by using the same tactic humans use when they are caught cheating. Test your understanding of each lesson with a short quiz. He shares his delight over the schisms that the Church of England has suffered, most of which are “self-inflicted wounds” caused by silly, shallow deliberations over petty matters. Wormwood has gone to this college for training but it’s useless because the director, Slubgob, is bad at his job. Wormwood is an inexperienced devil, and he hasgone to a training college to help prepare him to tempt humans into sin.

The experiences helped reestablish who this young man really was: just like before his spiritual awakening, he only cared about vanity, irony, bustle (bustle = people running around), old decorative art objects, and wasting time over expensive food items. In response to this Screwtape expertly recommends that Wormwood push The Patient to extremism, either direction will do. "The Screwtape Letters Summary".