Bushra Shahid2025-11-222025-11-222024https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/12036This study explores the impact of the narrative in making the realities we live in. It discusses the relation of power and narrative how narrative is power and power is narrative. The upper ruling class holds the narrative, but it ends up misrepresenting the lower class, and then stereotypes are formed about certain classes. Firstly, by contextualizing the importance of narrative and the class binaries which are created because of narrative; the ground is provided for analysis. The referential analysis of narrative power is provided through the application of Marxist Narratology on J.M. Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians. Two theories Narratology and Marxism are combined for theoretical framework. The qualitative narrative analysis method analyses how in the novel the narrative is in the hands of only one person, which further explores that narrative gave the narrator absolute power to constantly represent the roles of certain people to be in power and others being under them. The study investigates the power politics of narrative on three levels. Firstly, the power which one gets because of the narrative in one hand; secondly, the upper class holding the narrative and thirdly, men dominating the narrative representing women in a certain pattern as they wanted them to be. This study claims the idea that everyone must write for themselves and make their true representation in the present so that the stereotypes can be changed. This study provides the avenue for future researchers to focus on the research areas that affect practical life and work on a more experimental level with narrative.enThesis