Beowulf: the Epic Tale of Two Evils According to Ron Rosenbaum, the author of "Degrees of Evil", there is a hierarchy of wickedness; thus, evil can be assorted in different degrees of its nature: "There is evil and there is evil-distinctions to be drawn..."(Rosenbaum, 63). Sp...

Composed in Anglo-Saxon England, the epic poem "Beowulf" deals with the adventures of a hero battling the forces of evil in the world. The monsters in "Beowulf" personify this evil. The universal literary theme of good vs. evil, found in many epic poems, climates in the various battles between Beo...