The format is letters from a "senior devil" to a junior tempter", so the "senior devil" (i.e. Screwtape) would be the narrator.
The P.O.V. would then be "first person" narrator.
The Screwtape Letters is a work of Christian fiction by C. S. Lewis first published in book form in 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior devil, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of an earthly man, known only as "the Patient."
Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts more as a mentor than a supervisor to Wormwood, the inexperienced tempter; almost every letter ends with the signature, "Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape." In the body of the thirty-one letters which make up the book, Screwtape gives Wormwood detailed advice on various methods of undermining faith and promoting sin in his Patient, interspersed with observations on human nature and Christian doctrine.
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of the Christian life and Christian morality by portraying a typical human life, with all its attendant temptations and failings, as seen from the devil's viewpoint. At the same time an attempt is made to justify and portray Christian teaching on the existence of Evil as a personified 'devil'; Wormwood and Screwtape live in a peculiarly morally reversed world, where individual benefit and greed are seen as the greatest good, and neither devil is capable of comprehending or acknowledging true human virtue when he sees it.
Versions of the letters were originally published in The Guardian, and the standard edition contains an introduction explaining how the author chose to write his story.
While The Screwtape Letters is one of Lewis' most popular works, Lewis himself claimed that the book was distasteful to write, and he vowed never to write a direct sequel. However, in 1959 he wrote an addendum, Screwtape Proposes a Toast, which takes the form not of a letter but rather an after-dinner speech given by Screwtape at the Tempters' Training College for Young Devils. It first appeared as an article in the Saturday Evening Post. The Screwtape Letters along with Screwtape Proposes a Toast have also been published on audio CD narrated by John Cleese of Monty Python.
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The Screwtape Letters is comprised of thirty-one letters written by a senior devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a young demon named Wormwood. Screwtape's letters contain advice for how to turn Wormwood's "Patient", an ordinary man living in war-time England, towards the "Father Below" (Satan) and away from "the Enemy" (God).
2007-04-14 15:52:08
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answered by johnslat 7
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The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior devil, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of an earthly man, known only as "the Patient." Pax - C
2007-04-14 15:47:00
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answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7
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This looks like a quote from his e book "Mere Christianity" in case you study the full e book he's making the case that Jesus is in actuality God the Son 2nd member of the trinity study the full e book it truly is solid. it truly is predicated on the undeniable fact that even people who don't think that there is a God nonetheless persist with the guidelines of God. Rom 2:14-15 KJV For whilst the Gentiles, that have not the regulation, do by nature the failings interior the regulation, those, having no longer the regulation, are a regulation unto themselves: (15) Which shew the artwork of the regulation written of their hearts, their experience of right and incorrect additionally bearing witness, and their suggestions the recommend mutually as accusing in the different case excusing one yet another;)
2016-12-29 12:03:40
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answered by cauley 3
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