Brainstorming for Analysis Ideas

- Foreshadowing
- The Church
      o Hypocrisy
      o “At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of "Christians" in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but which, in fact, is largely pictorial.”
- Metaphor of the road to Hell
      o “Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,”
- “Power of prayer”
      o “…we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous.”
- “Muddying the waters of truth”
- Spiritual warfare and human relationships
- The building up of tiny things into something huge
      o I.e. “daily pinpricks”
- Allusions
      o I.e. “the Enemy” and “Our Father”
- Power of flippancy
      o “If prolonged, the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy that I know, and it is quite free from the dangers inherent in the other sources of laughter.”
- Pains and Pleasures