Prompt: In a well-developed essay, argue which three differences between the demons’ world and the physical world are the most important. Write about the differences, using The Screwtape Letters as the basis for you discussion.
Thesis: In C. S. Lewis’ epistolary novel, The Screwtape Letters, the contrasts between the demonic and human world are important because they reveal the demons’ inability to lovingly care for others, they show man’s virtue through God and the demons’ failure to produce any form of virtue, and the demons’ lack of the presence of the Lord.
Topic Sentence 1: Demons in The Screwtape Letters have proven the demons’ inability to lovingly care for others even as the demons work towards a common goal.
•After Wormwood fails to deceive the Patient into denouncing his faith, Screwtape is more than willing to push aside his care for his nephew and devour Wormwood because of Wormwood’s failure. …show more content…
Love you? Why, yes. As dainty a morsel as ever I grew fat on” (Lewis 171).
•“Bring us food, or be food yourself” (165).
•At the sight of one’s failure, the demons desire to consume the other as a morsel while humans try to encourage each other.
•Demons push harm upon another despite the fact that they belong to the same cause.
Topic Sentence 2: Another important difference in C. S. Lewis’ novel is man’s virtue through God and the demon’s failure to produce any form of virtue.
•The demons remain unable to mimic virtue.
•“Well, I am afraid it is no good trying to make him brave. Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap” (159).
•Our God remain to be the only one able to produce true good.
•No matter how hard the demons try, they will never be able to produce something they cannot fully
Thesis: In C. S. Lewis’ epistolary novel, The Screwtape Letters, the contrasts between the demonic and human world are important because they reveal the demons’ inability to lovingly care for others, they show man’s virtue through God and the demons’ failure to produce any form of virtue, and the demons’ lack of the presence of the Lord.
Topic Sentence 1: Demons in The Screwtape Letters have proven the demons’ inability to lovingly care for others even as the demons work towards a common goal.
•After Wormwood fails to deceive the Patient into denouncing his faith, Screwtape is more than willing to push aside his care for his nephew and devour Wormwood because of Wormwood’s failure. …show more content…
Love you? Why, yes. As dainty a morsel as ever I grew fat on” (Lewis 171).
•“Bring us food, or be food yourself” (165).
•At the sight of one’s failure, the demons desire to consume the other as a morsel while humans try to encourage each other.
•Demons push harm upon another despite the fact that they belong to the same cause.
Topic Sentence 2: Another important difference in C. S. Lewis’ novel is man’s virtue through God and the demon’s failure to produce any form of virtue.
•The demons remain unable to mimic virtue.
•“Well, I am afraid it is no good trying to make him brave. Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap” (159).
•Our God remain to be the only one able to produce true good.
•No matter how hard the demons try, they will never be able to produce something they cannot fully