The Squire's Tale Analysis
It is expressed in the Man of Laws tale through the lawyer's interjections into the narrative as he paints a stereotypical picture of the brutal and barbaric Saracen, thus expressing his power in shaping the opinions and sentiments of western readers. However, in the Squires Tale, an attempt at controlling the ‘other’ is situated in the domestication of the narrative through providing a western framework which is dismantled, as the inability to describe the ‘other’, results in western submission. Alongside this fear comes attempts at further identifying the ‘other’ through the constant distancing and paralleling of their identity, cultures, and religious beliefs by comparing them to the ‘idealised’ Christian Western model. For instance, the