onstructs the terms of order" (McGregor 223), but this is the view of other critics, and not McGregor himself. Instead, McGregor believes the tale is really about force and control and that the knight's story really shows that "the attempt to control human behavior through force is misguided" (McGregor 223). Ultimately, the author believes that the "Knight's Tale" is a tale that shows man's "fallen condition" but does not attempt to remedy that condition, an interesting assessment of the knight's narration (McGregor 224). He also compares the work both to Dante's "Inferno" and Boccaccio's work for a final time, showing the similarities of historical narration in all the works, indication how Chaucer was influenced by these works, and it shows in his own work.
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