Abstract

“In evil as in art there was illumination.”Evil has been an enchanting subject with writers since time immemorial. For the Romans and Greeks, miasma or moral contamination in society was an anathema. They therefore ardently contested evil in their social life and literary works as an unnatural pollutant in an otherwise unblemished creation of the Almighty. Their vision of society was exclusive of evil and hence Oedipus and Medea were banished from their respective states for posing a threat to the moral purity of the people. In the ancient past, the boundaries between evil and good were as clear as between night and day, and it was possible to differentiate one from the other. Hence, the writers personified and..