Screwtape Letters
Hellish mentorship epistles
The Screwtape Letters is a 1942 novel by C.S.
Lewis, written as a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, advising his nephew Wormwood on how to corrupt a human soul.
The format inverts moral instruction—virtue appears as danger, vice as strategy—creating satirical commentary on human weakness and Christian theology.
The title now serves as shorthand for any cynical, insider perspective on manipulation: His memo read like something from the Screwtape Letters.
- demonMalevolent supernatural being
- LewisCommon British surname
- WormwoodBitter aromatic shrub
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- deadly sinsMortal transgressions of doctrine
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