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In these letters, screwtape discusses various strategies to weaken the patient's faith, including keeping him alive to attack in middle age, making him a coward through fear and hatred, and capitalizing on his fatigue. Wormwood is scolded for his failures and threatened with extinction.
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Wormwood’s failures keep mounting. The demon was unable to entangle the patient with worldly friends. The patient has fallen in love with a dedicated Christian woman, and none of the attacks on his spiritual life are working at the present. To top it off, Wormwood is showing too much enthusiasm over the potential for human fatalities due to war. In fact, Screwtape says that they must guard the patient’s life in order to let real worldliness take root and grow into his middle-age years.
In this letter, Screwtape revisits an old topic – fear. This time the context of the war and recent bombings is in the patient’s hometown. Screwtape recommends defeating the patient’s courage and making him a coward. Since human beings normally feel shame and guilt over cowardice, Screwtape believes that his fear will undermine his courage and drive him away from God.