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In this article, the writer compares and contrasts W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen," Sophocles' 'Philoctetes', Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions', and Mehdi Charef's 'Tea in the Harem', examining the disenfranchisement of the characters and their rites of passage.

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"Rites of passage are a recurrent theme in modern literature highlighting difficult transitions in status or thinking that become a turning point in the lives of the characters. Four works that typify the rite of passage are W. H Auden's poem 'The Unknown Citizen' Sophocles' play 'Philoctetes' and the novels 'Nervous Conditions' by Tsitsi Dangarembga and 'Tea in the Harem' by Mehdi Charef. In each of these works the main character undergoes a change and while that change is different in each ..."

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