After seeing The Screwtape letters on Broadway, I thought it was time to delve into the mysterious world of our own devils, and daemons, all with the guidance of "your affectionate uncle Screwtape" This story by C.S. Lewis (yes think Narnia) is a lesser known story than Narnia, which, for all the hype it got, I feel myself detesting. However, the screwtape letters are simply amazing. They follow a daemon named Wormwood, through his uncles letters to him, about the person he is trying to bring to "our father below."
The story itself is almost a moral, and pokes at our own vices. And is hilarious. (yes this is still the man who wrote Narnia)but I love the way that it seems when the devils are looking down on us the way we look down on beings who we see lower than us. It talks about humanity, as below them, something which i would bet would make most of us humans feel pretty uncomfortable, I mean being thought of as food, and, even highly inferior, really puts you in your place. I hate to make a horrible pun here, but at this point I feel I must point out tat Lewis has us playing the devil's Advocate. Seeing what life would be like down below. And shockingly, it isn't that different from life up above on earth. person attacking person and makes us think about our humanity as a whole. I like it a lot more than I thought I would. It is an amazing boo, and I would recommend it to anyone who has ever thought about any of these issues.
Eli, work on editing your posts more carefully! Think about paragraphs, too!
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