What is the purpose of Mocha's #beforeEach when you can just run code inside the #describe scope?

I'm learning TDD from this article and the author talks about how Mocha's beforeEach will run a code before each assertion for you. But I don't understand why you need to do that when you can just run the code in the describe scope.

describe('Test suite for UserComponent', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    // Prevent duplication
    wrapper = shallow(<UserComponent
                            name={ 'Reign' }
                            age={ 26 } />);
  });

  it('UserComponent should exist', () => {
    expect(wrapper).to.exist;
  });

  it('Correctly displays the user name and age in paragraphs wrapped under a parent div', () => {
    expect(wrapper.type()).to.equal('div');
    // more code...
  });
});

But not using the beforeEach would still work -

describe('Test suite for UserComponent', () => {

wrapper = shallow(<UserComponent
                        name={ 'Reign' }
                        age={ 26 } />);

  it('UserComponent should exist', () => {
    expect(wrapper).to.exist;
  });

  it('Correctly displays the user name and age in paragraphs wrapped under a parent div', () => {
    expect(wrapper.type()).to.equal('div');
    // more code...
  });
});