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'''Screwtape''' appears as a fictional demon in ''The Screwtape Letters'' (first published in ''The Guardian'' 1941, collected and published in book form 1942) and in its sequel short story ''Screwtape Proposes a Toast'' (1959), both written by the Christian author C. S. Lewis. '''''Screwtape''''' is also the title of the stage adaptation of the ''Letters'' by James Forsyth (originally ''Dear Wormwood'', 1961).<!-- source is our article on the books -->
Screwtape holds the rank of Senior Tempter and serves as the Undersecretary of his department in what Lewis envisages as a sort of infernal Civil Service. ''The Screwtape Letters'' represent his side of the correspondence with his nephew Wormwood, as mentor to the young demon who is charged with the guidance of one man. He has a secretary called Toadpipe. The ''Toast'' is Screwtape's after-dinner speech at the Tempters' Training College and satirises American and British or English public education.<!-- source is our article on the books, essentially -->
Screwtape appears to understand very well the nature of human minds and human weaknesses, although nothing about human love. He also has a way with words and a fondness for sarcasm. <!-- Letters leftover, needs more information to be worth saying. "His correspondence with Junior Tempter Wormwood, concerning Wormwood's attempts to get an individual to sin" --> <!-- Toast leftover, needs more to be worth saying "thinks little of Slubgob, a professor at Tempters' Training College for Young Demons" -->
==External links== * {{ISFDB title |4225 |The Screwtape Letters}}
Category:C. S. Lewis characters Category:Characters in fantasy literature Category:Fictional demons Category:Literary characters introduced in 1941
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