| 1 | * CreatorBacklash: A relatively mild example. Lewis said in the foreword of later editions that while ''Screwtape'' was one of the easiest things he ever wrote, it was also the least enjoyable. As he put it, it caused a kind of moral cramp, forcing himself into a demonic mindset. He also resented it for not being something he felt he wasn't skilled enough to write - Screwtape's advice balanced by angelic advice from Heaven. And he was rather annoyed that his later more serious books were marketed as "By the author of ''The Screwtape Letters''". For these reasons, he never wrote a true sequel, though he did write a toast (a scathing criticism of the American educational system at the time and its resulting TallPoppySyndrome) in Screwtape's voice. |
| 2 | * FollowTheLeader: Several Christian writers have copied Lewis's conceit of an EpistolaryNovel by TheDevil to deliver their own {{Author Tract}}s, with examples including ''Screwtape Writes Again'' by Walter Martin, ''To My Dear Slimeball'' by Rich Miller, and ''Lord Foulgrin's Letters'' and its sequel ''The Ishbane Conspiracy'' by Randy Alcorn. Let's just say that none of them has come anywhere close to the success of the original. |
| 3 | * MagnumOpusDissonance: Alongside ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', ''The Screwtape Letters'' is one of Lewis's most notable works, though he found it actively unpleasant to write. ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'' was Lewis's favorite of his own works, and he once said ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}'' was worth ten Screwtapes. |
| 4 | * ScienceMarchesOn: Screwtape mentions that "the majority of the human race dies in infancy". Thanks to modern medicine, it's not as much the case now as it was in the 1940s. |
| 5 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 6 | ** In the [[https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2947&context=mythlore#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=1 original draft]] of the introduction, the letters were retrieved and translated from Old Solar by Ransom, the protagonist of ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy''. |
| 7 | ** Pr. Lewis originally planned a POVSequel, featuring Screwtape's GoodCounterpart (mostly believed to be the Archangel Gabriel) giving advice to the patient's guardian angel, but never actually followed through on it. Some of that may have been reworked into ''The Great Divorce'', where saintly humans try to persuade less-blessed souls to give up their vices and come with them to Heaven. |
| 8 | * WorkingTitle: "As One Devil to Another." |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext Trivia / TheScrewtapeLetters
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
