The perception of "good" and "evil" reflects not only the moral and ethical aspects of a person's life, but testifies to a certain transformation of social consciousness that occurs in the process of historical and cultural interaction, as a result of a collision with various factors (from political, external and internal to cultural). As a result, the study of the perception of these philosophical categories in different
historical epochs is one of the leading historical problems. A reflection of the perception of "good" and "evil"
is represented, first of all, in the literary works of mankind and is the main source in the studies devoted to
the study of various aspects of life of, or other people in different historical epochs