The Screwtape Letters

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

C.S Lewis

Question 2

As a whole exemplifies

Answer 2

Structural irony

Question 3

The peaks and trials of human life

Answer 3

Law of undulations

Question 4

That abominable advantage of the enemy

Answer 4

Incarnation

Question 5

How does screwtape want people to define real life? What does he have to gain from this definition?

Answer 5

• screwtape wants people to think of real life as the things that they can perceive through their senses. If he can keep humans thinking about that ,they will never consider eternal spiritual realities and listen to God

Question 6

Describe the three major results of being unsatisfied with “the same old thing”

Answer 6

The dissatisfaction creates the desire for more of a thing while decreasing the pleasure a person can get out of it . This excess twists natural pleasures into something illegitimate as they overrun Gods boundareies

This can distract people from real problems by focusing on what’s then fashionable to consider as the real problem

The desire for something new can become a philosophy all it’s own where anything new is automatically better , or “progressive”

Question 7

Screw tape letters is an example of

Answer 7

Satire

Question 8

The patient is

Answer 8

An ordinary person