In The Screwtape letters by C.S Lewis, C.S Lewis explores a master demon’s letters to his apprentice on how to destroy a man’s entire life through psychological tricks and schemes aiming to prevent a strong relationship with God. In the Screwtape letters, there are only four main characters: Screwtape, Wormwood, the patient, and God (often referred to as “The Enemy”). Screwtape is one of many senior or master demons, destroying or separating people from God or goodness almost constantly. He is on to Wormwood about using “modern 20th century techniques” and not to repeatedly argue with his “patient” about what's real and not. Wormwood is Screwtape’s nephew, a minor or lesser demon amongst hell who is trying to ruin a early 20th century man’s relationship with God and trick him into sin. The patient is a middle …show more content…
Though when writing The Screwtape Letters, it was supposedly a sequel to An Angel’s Perspective, and took him almost six months to complete it. The reason for this is because once he started writing it he started to dislike writing this book. He told a newspaper that it was “dry and gritty going. At the time, I was thinking of objections to the Christian life and decided to put them in the form ‘That’s what the devil would say.’ But making goods ‘bad’ and bads ‘good’ gets to be fatiguing.” -C.S Lewis. So writing it was not his favorite but still came out a good book.

In conclusion The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis, C.S Lewis explores a master demon’s letter’s to his apprentice on how to destroy a man’s entire life through psychological tricks and schemes aiming to prevent a strong relationship with God. It is through this we can think of our own thoughts and ideas and relate back to this and find the temptations demons may hold on us and fight