C.S. Lewis’s best-known books is a fictional book called The Screwtape Letters. It's a series of letters, from a senior devil to his nephew on how to tempt an ordinary human. The following are some excerpts from the same book, which explain why C.S. Lewis chose beaurcracy as a symbol for hell.
We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment. This, to begin with. For the rest, my own choice of symbols depended, I suppose, on temperament and on the age.
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