AMAT-UR-REHMAN TEHREEM2025-11-212025-11-212022https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11681The research paper aims to explore Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth in Kamila Shamsie’s novel, Broken Verses through qualitative analysis. The main objective of the paper is to delineate mental trauma embedded in the memory of the characters, which molds their present and future identities. The significance of the dissertation is unraveled in the traumatic, rampant ravages in the ecstatic childhood, hurling victims in an eternal void of identity crisis. The research questions that this paper will address are as follows: What does the title “Broken Verses” signify? What are the different types of traumas stated by Kamila Shamsie in her writings including “Broken Verses”? How the traumatic experiences change the behavioral and psychological patterns of trauma survivors? The tools for this research constitute of the novel Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie as the primary source. Whereas, Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth serves as one of the secondary text from a theoretical perspective. The study fills the gap in research on Broken Verses as a critical study of the cynical Pakistani politics and the seeping in of fundamentalism in government body. The research leaves open the intellectual space to explore Fascism in Shamsie’s selected work.enThesis