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Narration Prompt
Reconstruct Screwtape's twelfth letter in sequence, then identify the single principle that governs all its tactics. How can you tell that the unnoticed drift, not any dramatic fall, is the letter's true subject?
Discussion Questions
- Screwtape's chief fear is that the man might 'awaken... to a sense of his real position,' so the change of direction must seem 'trivial and revocable.' Is the deepest danger to the man the drift itself or his ignorance of it — and why does Lewis make one of these primary? Use Screwtape's words to Wormwood to defend your reading.
- Screwtape says the man's 'dim uneasiness needs careful handling': kept alive but never allowed to 'flower into real repentance,' it merely deepens his 'reluctance to think about the Enemy.' Why is a guilt that is felt but never faced more useful to the devils than either no guilt or true repentance? Use Screwtape's words to Wormwood to develop your answer.
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