The Screw Tape Letters

 

Letter V Questions

 

  1. Wormwood seems to be joyous in current events.  What is it that he is excited about, and why do you think this is to his advantage?

 

 


  1. Screwtape believes there is a decision to be made on a course of action.  What are the two possibilities?

 

 

 

 


  1. What are the possibilities for Wormwood in each of these two findings?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  1. What are potential downsides of the war for Screwtape and his crew?

 

 

 

 


  1. What are the opposing views of these two sentences?  “Consider too what undesirable deaths occur in wartime. Men are killed in places where they knew they might be killed and to which they go, if they are at all of the Enemy's party, prepared. How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition.”

 

 

 

 


  1. What idea is being expressed in the last paragraph?

 

 

 

 


  1. What did you learn from this letter?