During our readings this quarter we have been introduced to characters who vary greatly in personality. We were shown characters like the gorgeous Margot Macomber, who is a domineering wife who is thought to have killed her husband in "The Brief Happy Life of Francis Macomber", to others like the gentle Gonzola from The Tempest. We have encountered various others with much more different characteristics. In all these stories, however, we have seen two characters, in more recent readings, who are very similar in the way they behave. These two characters are Caliban, who we met in The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, and Abner, who we have just discovered in “Barn Burning”, by William Faulkner. These characters are what we see from both of these characters is how they have greater value than what society expects of them. In the character of Caliban we see this in his relationship with Miranda, which is mentioned at the beginning of the story. When Caliban talks to Prospero and Miranda, Prospero brings up how Caliban tried to “violate the honor of [his] own,” but Caliban only wanted to repopulate “the island with Caliban” (20). Caliban does not see the evil in his action that society would see, but rather believes that he is right and just since Miranda is old enough to repopulate and he was the only male on the island at the time. On the other hand, Prospero lives with society's opinion that Miranda should not give up her innocence for a man who is not a prince. From this scene we really see how Caliban does not agree with what society expects, but rather acts according to his own naturalistic beliefs. From them we see the same characteristic of Abner and his personal values. We see this in the way Abner acts extremely aggressively by burning down people's barns rather than handling things more justly, but we see it even more through his personal beliefs. As Abner explains to Sarty, he feels that you must "stick to your own blood" referring to family blood (Faulkner, 3). From this scene we understand how Abner essentially places his family above society's values ​​and throughout the story we see Sarty pulled between these two sides. Overall, Abner's actions show that he does not view society's values ​​as important at all and rather sees his family's values ​​as far superior. From both of these characters we see how similar they are in their ideals and we can understand how closely their actions are related to each other