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C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a satirical novel featuring letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, advising him on corrupting his human patient. In letters 13-17,...

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C. S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis pictured hell in The Screwtape Letters as a toxic office environment where everyone is trying to hurt and backstab others. In The Great Divorce, he pictured it as an eternally gray, rainy...

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Lewis's conclusion is that people don't want to subscribe to moral law, but rather they want the freedom to live in their own individualistic manner without being forced into any kind of standard....

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Letters 18 and 19 focus on distorting the concept of love to lead individuals away from faith. By encouraging superficial love driven by sexual temptation, the letters suggest that such relationships...

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In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis gives a number of pictures to demonstrate how vices prevent sinners from seeking repentance and gaining entrance into heaven. Frank the Tragedian felt that his wife...

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C.S. Lewis uses passages from Milton's Paradise Lost to argue that Satan is self-deluded and not a serious threat. He cites Satan's "injur'd merit" from Book I, likening him to a "film star," and...

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