![]() ![]() Many Christians are familiar with the idea of a guardian angelan angel assigned by God to watch over a person and help him or her through life’s difficulties. Screwtape’s nephew and the devil assigned to tempt the Patient. He often reprimands Wormwood for making mistakes with the Patient, and, after Wormwood fails to win the Patient for Hell, Screwtape is eager to eat a piece of him as punishment for failure. Despite Screwtape’s successes, he is angry and embittered, critical of Hell’s bureaucracy and of Wormwood. There are far higher-ranking devils then Screwtapebut Screwtape is apparently important enough to have his own secretary, Toadpipe, who takes dictation when Screwtape is in millipede form. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, the reader learns, Screwtape undergoes a sudden transformation into a giant millipede. He seems to be a mid-level bureaucrat within Hell’s corporate structure. By his own account, Screwtape has won many souls for Hell. Screwtape often refers to Wormwood, his nephew, with terms of endearment. He has been assigned, or perhaps, to give his nephew Wormwood advice about how to win the soul of an unnamed British manthe Patientinto Hell. A devil and the fictional author of The Screwtape Letters. ![]()
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