:The Screwtape Letters

In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis imagines a series of lessons on the importance of taking a deliberate role in Christian faith by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, seen from devils' viewpoints. Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell. Until the book's final pages, Screwtape acts as a mentor to his nephew Wormwood, an inexperienced and incompetent tempter.

In the 31 letters which compose the book, Screwtape gives Wormwood detailed advice on various methods of undermining God's words and of promoting abandonment of God in "the Patient" (whom Wormwood is tempting), interspersed with observations on human nature and the Bible. In Screwtape's advice, selfish gain and power are seen as the only good, and neither devil can comprehend God's love for man or acknowledge human virtue.

Versions of the letters were originally published weekly in the Anglican periodical The Guardian during wartime, from May to November 1941.{{Sfn | Lancelyn Green | Hooper | 2002 | p = 236}}{{Citation |last= Griffin |first= William |year= 2005 |title= C. S. Lewis: The Authentic Voice |page= 188 |publisher= Lion Hudson |place= Oxford |isbn= 0-7459-5208-9}} The book adds an introduction explaining how the author chose to write his story.

Lewis wrote a sequel, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast", in 1959. The satirical essay criticizes trends in British society, education, and public attitudes. The essay was included, with a new preface by Lewis, in editions of The Screwtape Letters published by Bles in 1961 and by Macmillan in 1962.

The Screwtape Letters became one of Lewis' most popular works, although he said it was "not fun" to write and "resolved never to write another 'Letter{{'-}}".{{Citation |last= Lewis |first= C. S. |title= The Screwtape Letters |place= New York |publisher= HarperCollins |year= 2001 |page= 184 }}

Both "The Screwtape Letters" and "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" were released on audio cassette and CD, with narrations by John Cleese,{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEf7sdiohjk |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HEf7sdiohjk |archive-date= 2021-12-11 |url-status= live |title= The Screwtape Letters Audiobook |via= www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}} Joss Ackland,{{cite web |url= https://www.audible.com/ |title= Audible.com | Audible.com |via= www.audible.com}} and Ralph Cosham.{{cite web |url= https://www.amazon.com/The-Screwtape-Letters-audiobook/dp/B000ICM1G6 |title= The Screwtape Letters (Audible Audio Edition): Ralph Cosham, C. S. Lewis, Blackstone Audio, Inc.: Audible Books & Originals |website= Amazon |publisher= |date= |access-date= 2022-04-11}} Cleese's recording was a Grammy Awards Finalist for Best Spoken Word.

The Screwtape Letters consists of 31 letters written by a senior devil named Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood (named after a star in the Book of Revelation), a younger and less experienced devil, charged with guiding a man called "the Patient" toward "Our Father Below" (Satan), and away from "the Enemy" (God).

After the first letter, the Patient converts to Christianity, and Wormwood is chastised for allowing this. A striking contrast is formed between Wormwood and Screwtape during the rest of the book, wherein Wormwood is depicted through Screwtape's letters as anxious to tempt his patient into extravagantly wicked and deplorable sins, often recklessly, while Screwtape takes a more subtle stance, as in Letter XII, wherein he remarks: "... the safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

In Letter VIII, Screwtape explains to his protégé the different purposes that God and the devils have for the human race: "We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons." With this end in mind, Screwtape urges Wormwood in Letter VI to promote passivity and irresponsibility in the Patient: "(God) wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."

With his own views on theology, Lewis goes on to describe and discuss sex, love, pride, gluttony, and war in successive letters. Lewis, an Oxford and Cambridge scholar himself, suggests in his work that even intellectuals are not impervious to the influence of such devils, especially during complacent acceptance of the "Historical Point of View" (Letter XXVII).

In Letter XXII, after several attempts to find a licentious woman for the Patient "to promote a useful marriage", and after Screwtape's narrowly avoiding a painful punishment for having divulged to Wormwood God's genuine love for humanity (about which Wormwood had promptly informed the Infernal authorities), Screwtape notes that the Patient has fallen in love with a Christian girl, and through her and her family, had adopted a very Christian way of life. Toward the end of this letter, in his anger, Screwtape becomes a large centipede, mimicking a similar transformation in Book X of Paradise Lost, wherein the devils are changed into snakes. Later in the correspondence, it is revealed that the young man may be placed in harm's way by his possible civil defence duties (it is stated in an earlier letter that he is eligible for military service, but it is never actually confirmed that he was indeed called). While Wormwood is delighted with this and by the Second World War in general, Screwtape admonishes Wormwood to keep the Patient safe in hopes that they can compromise his faith over a long lifetime.

In the last letter, the Patient has been killed during the Blitz and has gone to Heaven, and for his ultimate failure, Wormwood is doomed to suffer the consumption of his spiritual essence by the other devils, especially by Screwtape himself. He responds to Wormwood's final letter by saying that he may expect as little assistance as Screwtape would expect from Wormwood were their situations reversed ("My love for you and your love for me are as alike as two peas ... The difference is that I am the stronger"), mimicking the situation where Wormwood himself reported his uncle to the Infernal Police for Infernal Heresy (making a religiously positive remark that would offend Satan).

Screwtape starts every letter with "My dear Wormwood", except the last letter, which sarcastically says, "My dear, my very dear Wormwood; my poppet, my pigsnie."

The short sequel "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1959), first published as an article in The Saturday Evening Post, is an addendum to The Screwtape Letters; the two works are often published together as one book.{{Cite book |last= Lewis |first= C. S. |author-link= C. S. Lewis |year= 2001 |title= The Screwtape Letters, with Screwtape Proposes a Toast |publisher= HarperSanFrancisco |isbn= 0-06-065293-4 }} The sequel takes the form of an after-dinner speech given by Screwtape at the Tempters' Training College for young devils. In stage adaptations it is sometimes added as a prelude, making the work a prequel.{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqplwDEz9o0 |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/sqplwDEz9o0| archive-date= 2021-12-11 |url-status= live |title= The Screwtape Letters — as performed by the Queens Players |date= 4 January 2014|via= www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}} "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" is Lewis' criticism of leveling and featherbedding trends in public education; more specifically, as he reveals in the foreword to the American edition, public education in America (though in the text, it is English education that is held up as the purportedly awful example).{{Cite web |title=Is "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" by C.S Lewis a critique of American education? |url=http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2008/09/is-screwtape-proposes-toast-by-cs-lewis.html |access-date=2023-02-23 |language=en-GB}}

The Cold War opposition between the West and the Communist World is explicitly discussed as a backdrop to the educational issues. Screwtape and other devils are portrayed as consciously using the subversion of education and intellectual thought in the West to bring about its overthrow by the communist enemy from without and within. In this sense "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" is more strongly political than The Screwtape Letters, wherein no strong stand is made on political issues of the day, such as World War II.{{cite news |author= Hein, David |title= A Note on C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters|work= The Anglican Digest |volume= 49 |number= 2 |date= 2007 |pages= 55–58}}

Though C. S. Lewis had resolved not to write another letter, and only revisited the character of Screwtape once, in "Screwtape Proposes a Toast", the format, referred to by Lewis himself as a kind of "diabolical ventriloquism", has inspired other authors to prepare sequels or similar works, such as:

• Breig, Joseph A. (1952). The Devil You Say.
• {{cite book |author= Martin, Walter R. |isbn= 978-0-88449-033-3 |date= 1975 |title= Screwtape Writes Again|publisher= Vision House }}{{cite web |url= https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780884490333/198728758 |title= 9780884490333: Screwtape Writes Again - AbeBooks - C. S. Lewis: 0884490335 |website= Abebooks.com |access-date= 24 November 2018}}
• {{cite book |author= Kreeft, Peter |title= The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter's Training School |isbn= 978-0-89870-721-2 |date= 1998|publisher= Ignatius Press }}
• {{cite book |title= Lord Foulgrin's Letters |author= Alcorn, Randy |isbn= 978-1-57673-861-0 |date= 2001|publisher= Crown Publishing }}
• {{cite book |author= Bryan Miles |title=The Wormwood Letters |isbn= 978-0-595-28392-7 |date= 2003|publisher=iUniverse }} Wormwood, who has somehow survived, now finds himself in a new era writing to his own nephew, Soulsniper.
• Fejfar, Antony J. (2004). The Screwtape Emails: An Allegory.
• {{cite book |author= Forest, Jim |title= The Wormwood File: E-mail From Hell |isbn= 978-1-57075-554-5 |date= 2004 |publisher= Orbis Books |url= https://archive.org/details/wormwoodfileemai0000fore}} Another Wormwood series of instructions.
• {{cite book |title= The Devil's Inbox |author= Laymon, Barbara |isbn= 978-0-8066-4945-0 |date= 2004 |publisher= Augsburg Books |url= https://archive.org/details/devilsinbox0000laym}}
• {{cite book |author= Williams, Arthur H. Jr. |title= The Screwtape Email |isbn= 978-1-4120-0067-3 |date= 2006|publisher= Trafford }}
• Longenecker, Dwight (2009). The Gargoyle Code: Lenten Letters between a Master Tempter and his diabolical Trainee. {{ISBN|978-0-615-67385-1}}. Master Tempter Slubgrip advises Dogwart how to corrupt a young Catholic, while struggling to control his own 'patient.'
• {{cite book |title=The Michael Letters: Heaven's answer to Screwtape |author=Peschke, Jim |isbn= 978-1-4536-6027-0 |date= 2010|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform }} The Archangel Michael provides advice to Jacob, a guardian angel.
• {{cite book |title= As One Devil to Another: A Fiendish Correspondence in the Tradition of C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters |author= Platt, Richard |isbn= 978-1-4143-7166-5 |date= 2012 |publisher= Tyndale House Publishers |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781414371665}}
• Andrews, Pat. (2014). E-mails from Hell: An Homage and Update to C.S. Lewis.
• {{cite book |author= Deace, Steve. |title= A Nefarious Plot. |isbn= 978-1-61868-823-1 |date= 2016|publisher= Simon and Schuster }}{{cite book |title= A Nefarious Plot |last= results |first= search |date= 16 February 2016 |publisher= Post Hill Press |isbn= 978-1-61868-823-1}}
• Aldridge, R.J. (2019). The Wormwood Emails: Inside Tips on Avoiding Hell.
• {{cite book |author= Cyprus, J.B.|title=Letters to Bentrock: A Demon's Guide To Trapping Prey. |isbn= 978-1-63977-278-0 |date= 2022|publisher=Wolfpack Publishing LLC }}{{cite book |title= Letters to Bentrock: A Demon's Guide To Trapping Prey |last= results |first= search |date= 31 January 2022 |publisher= CKN Christian Publishers |isbn= 978-1-61868-823-1}} The tempters are working in a Texas prison to keep The Inmate on the wide and easy road to their home below.

The stage play Dear Wormwood (later renamed Screwtape), written by James Forsyth, was published in 1961. The setting is changed to wartime London, where we actually see Wormwood going about the business of tempting his "patient" (in the play, given the name "Michael Green"). The ending is changed as well, with Wormwood trying to repent and beg for forgiveness, when it appears that his mission has failed. Dear Wormwood premiered in Luther High School North, Chicago in April, 1961.

Philadelphia playwright and actor Anthony Lawton's original adaptation of The Screwtape Letters has been staged several times since 2000 by Lantern Theater Company, most recently in May/June 2014. In Lawton's adaptation, each of Screwtape's letters is punctuated by varied dances including tap, Latin ballroom, jazz, martial arts, and rock – and whips and fire-eating. Screwtape performs these dances with his secretary, Toadpipe.

The Fellowship for the Performing Arts obtained from the Lewis estate the rights to adapt The Screwtape Letters for the stage. The initial production opened off-off-Broadway at Theatre 315 in New York City in January 2006. The initial three-week run was extended to eleven and finally closed because the theater was contractually obligated to another production.{{cite web

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}} It was co-written by Max McLean (who also starred) and Jeffrey Fiske (who also directed). In this production, there are two characters - Screwtape and Toadpipe; the latter is played by a female. A second, expanded production opened off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clements on 18 October 2007, originally scheduled to run through 6 January 2008. The production re-opened at the Mercury Theater in Chicago in September 2008, and continued on a national tour including San Francisco, Phoenix, Louisville, Chattanooga, Fort Lauderdale, Houston and Austin, through January 2010 as well as playing at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. for ten weeks.[http://screwtapeonstage.com/about "About The Screwtape Letters"] {{Webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160330020846/http://www.screwtapeonstage.com/about/ |date= 2016-03-30 }}, ScrewtapeOnStage. Retrieved on 27 January 2012. The Screwtape Letters played for 309 performances at New York City's Westside Theatre in 2010. The 2011 tour visited performing arts venues in cities throughout the United States including Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Boston. The 2012–2013 tour began in Los Angeles in January 2012, with return engagements in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago and Atlanta as well as stops in several other cities. The Screwtape Letters has been described as "Humorous and lively ... the Devil has rarely been given his due more perceptively!" by The New York Times, "A profound experience" by Christianity Today and "Wickedly witty ... One hell of a good show!" by The Wall Street Journal. The production has also toured worldwide.

In some productions, the role of Screwtape has been performed by a woman.

The Barley Sheaf Players of Lionville, Pennsylvania performed James Forsyth's play Screwtape in September 2010. It was directed by Scott Ryan and the play ran the last three weekends in September.{{cite web |url=http://www.barleysheaf.org/Show.aspx/22/Screwtape |title=Screwtape |website=The Barley Sheaf Players |access-date=24 November 2018 |archive-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220055010/http://www.barleysheaf.org/Show.aspx/22/Screwtape |url-status=dead }} The production was reviewed by Paul Recupero for Stage Magazine.Recupero, Paul. [http://stagepartners.org/2010/09/turn-of-the-screwtape/ "Turn of the SCREWTAPE"], Stage Magazine Review, September 10, 2010.

Marvel Comics and religious book publisher Thomas Nelson produced a comic book adaptation of The Screwtape Letters in 1994.Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters. The Christian classic series. New York: Marvel Comics, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-8407-6261-0}}

Focus on the Family Radio Theatre was granted the rights to dramatize The Screwtape Letters as a feature-length audio drama. Production began in 2008, and the product was released in the fall of 2009.{{cite web |url= https://www.tyndale.com/p/the-screwtape-letters/9781589973244 |title= The Screwtape Letters |website= www.tyndale.com}} Andy Serkis, known for playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, provided the voice for Screwtape, with Bertie Carvel as Wormwood, Philip Bird as The Patient (identified in this production as "John Hamilton"), Laura Michelle Kelly as The Girl (identified in this production as "Dorothy"), Roger Hammond as Toadpipe, Christina Greatrex as Slumtrimpet, Janet Henfrey as Glubose, Eileen Page as John Hamilton's mother, Susie Brann as Viv Brett, Robert Benfield as Noel Brett, and Geoffrey Palmer as C.S. Lewis. There is a 7-and-a-half minute video preview of the Radio Theatre production with interviews and making-of footage.{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohU4uBTjQVE |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ohU4uBTjQVE |archive-date= 2021-12-11 |url-status= live |title= Screwtape Letters Audio Drama - Behind the Scenes |date= 16 October 2009 |via= www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}} This production was a 2010 Audie Awards finalist.

An annotated edition of The Screwtape Letters was released in 2013 by HarperOne. Paul McCusker, who adapted the book for Focus on the Family's audio drama, wrote the footnotes. McCusker does not provide any theological commentary or interpretation, but instead clarifies vocabulary, literary passages and customs which might not be immediately clear to the modern reader. He also cross-references passages to Lewis' other works dealing with particular subjects.

In Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson named Miss Wormwood (Calvin's elementary school teacher) after Lewis' apprentice devil.{{cite web |last1=Watterson |first1=Bill |author-link1=Bill Watterson |title=About Calvin and Hobbes |url=https://www.calvinandhobbes.com/about-calvin-and-hobbes/ |website=www.calvinandhobbes.com |access-date=30 March 2020 |quote=As a few readers guessed, Miss Wormwood is named after the apprentice devil in C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. |archive-date=15 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215091348/https://www.calvinandhobbes.com/about-calvin-and-hobbes/ |url-status=dead }}

Affectionately Yours, Screwtape: The Devil and C.S. Lewis (January 1, 2007), directed by Tom Dallis and written by Amy Dallis, aired on the History Channel.{{cite web|website=IMDb.com|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1838448/ |date=January 1, 2007|title=Affectionately Yours, Screwtape: The Devil and C.S. Lewis |author=Dallis, Tom |author2=Dallis, Amy}}

In 2010, the Marine Corps Gazette began publishing a series of articles entitled "The Attritionist Letters" styled in the manner of The Screwtape Letters. In the letters, General Screwtape chastises Captain Wormwood for his inexperience and naivete while denouncing the concepts of maneuver warfare in favor of attrition warfare.{{cite web |url= http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/attritionist-letters-archives |title= The Attritionist Letters (Archives) |work= Marine Corps Gazette |publisher= MCA Marines |access-date= 2013-04-29 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130414182941/http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/attritionist-letters-archives |archive-date= 2013-04-14 }}

Writer David Foster Wallace praised the book in interviews and placed it first on his list of top ten favorite books.{{cite web |url= http://blogs.newsobserver.com/zane/david-foster-wallace-rip |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081031142600/http://blogs.newsobserver.com/zane/david-foster-wallace-rip |archive-date= 2008-10-31 |title= David Foster Wallace: R.I.P. |work= News observer |date= 16 September 2008 |access-date= 2013-04-29}}

Called to Arms' concept album Peril and the Patient (August 10, 2010) is based entirely on The Screwtape Letters.{{cite web |url= http://www.indievisionmusic.com/2010/05/21/called-to-arms-is-rad/ |title= Called to Arms is Rad |type= news |publisher= Indie Vision Music |date= 2010-05-21 |access-date= 2013-04-29 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120317225522/http://www.indievisionmusic.com/2010/05/21/called-to-arms-is-rad/ |archive-date= 2012-03-17 }}{{cite web |url= http://absolutepunk.net/artists/showlink.php?l=5474 |title= Called To Arms |type= profile |publisher= Absolute Punk |access-date= 2013-04-29 }}

In U2's music video for the song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (1995), an animated Bono is seen walking down the street holding the book The Screwtape Letters. While on stage during the Zoo TV Tour Bono would dress as Mr. MacPhisto, his alter ego. Bono would wear a gold suit and devil horns and usually make prank calls to politicians.

The lyrics for The Receiving End of Sirens' song "Oubliette (Disappear)", from the album The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi (2007), were inspired by a passage from The Screwtape Letters.{{cite web |url= http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858677260 |title= Disappear (Oubliette) Lyric Meaning – The Receiving End of Sirens Meanings |date= 8 January 2008 |publisher= Song meanings |access-date= 2013-04-29 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120829010653/http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858677260 |archive-date= 2012-08-29 }}

In the Christian metal band Living Sacrifice's album Ghost Thief, there is a track titled "Screwtape". Frontman Bruce Fitzhugh explained that the song is "about temptation and the proverbial 'devil on your shoulder.' It's about the thought process we go through to justify a thought or action that is not good for the soul". Fitzhugh also explains how he thought it was interesting Lewis wrote from the perspective of Screwtape and that he wrote from the same perspective in the song.{{cite web|url=http://lambgoat.com/features/109/Living-Sacrifice-Screwtape-song-premiere|title=Living Sacrifice's "Screwtape" song premiere|publisher=Lambgoat|access-date= January 12, 2016}}

The group The Oh Hellos released the album Dear Wormwood, which they have described as a form of speculative fiction from the point of view of "the patient".

The three-part song "Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth" on the 2021 album Laysongs by mandolinist Chris Thile was inspired by The Screwtape Letters.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/arts/music/chris-thile-laysongs.html | title=The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile | work=The New York Times | date=25 May 2021 | last1=Russonello | first1=Giovanni }}

David Bazan references the book in the lyrics of the title track of the 2024 Pedro the Lion album Santa Cruz.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

President of the United States Ronald Reagan quoted from The Screwtape Letters in his 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals.{{cite web |url= http://www.reaganfoundation.org/pdf/Remarks_Annual_Convention_National_Association_Evangelicals_030883.pdf |title= Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida |publisher= The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library |date= 8 March 1983 |access-date= 15 July 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150210022842/http://www.reaganfoundation.org/pdf/Remarks_Annual_Convention_National_Association_Evangelicals_030883.pdf |archive-date= 2015-02-10 }}

Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States appointed by Reagan, had professed his admiration for the book. In a 2013 interview with New York magazine, Scalia remarked: "The Screwtape Letters is a great book. It really is, just as a study of human nature." The book was mentioned in the highly publicized interview during Scalia's discourse regarding the nature of his Catholic faith.{{cite web |url= https://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/index4.html |title= In Conversation: Antonin Scalia |work= New York |date= 4 October 2013 |access-date= 6 October 2013 }}

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