In Broad Daylight: Message and Moral Essay

After hunger, sex is the most properly drive in forgivings. In the event of non-fulfillment of this drive, one may turn to evil ways of sprightliness by which is meant resorting to actions not considered right and attendant with unpleasant consequences. Though the story In Broad daylight is not purposely intended to be a story with strong social message, its author, Ha Jin, inadvertently establishes a universal truth that evil begets evil. The term evil has two connotations, one at rigorously personal and individual level and the second at collective and societal level. On an individual level, human race emotions and desires demand freedom of satisfaction.One does not mind defying customs and systems and wants absolute rights as a human being. Mu Ying, principal character of Ha Jins story and a lady past her prime, indulges in prostitution as she has been dissatisfied with the physical aspects of her relationship with her conserve Meng Su (Jin 84). She pleads with other woman to consider her case on human basis (Jin 84). Physical gratification is a matter of personal choice but it comes into involution with regulatory aspect of society which to promote a stable system denounces physical gratification extracurricular wedlock and makes it punishable as adultery.The more primitive and backward the society, like China during times of commie Revolution, the more barbaric the punishment. Mu Yings thrashing a red guard for not paying her specie results in her public humiliation and atrocious death at the hands of Red Guards and suicide of her husband (Jin 88) evil begetting evil. The author Ha Jing has not raised any question of morality. He has simply draw the incompatible conduct of a person and its disastrous repercussions.