This thesis analyzes the power relation based on gender between the main female character Amal, and three other characters (Abu, Jawad, and Baji) in the novel Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed. Restriction in character Amal became a gender issue regarding the oppression of women, which must be surrendered to certain power circumstances. The aim of this thesis is to show power relations between female characters and male characters and its effect on gender perspectives. The method is qualitative and uses close reading in data technique. Throughout this study Michel Foucault's theory of power, the concept of gender, and the characterization theory by Richard Gill were used to support the analysis. The results show that Amal’s resistance is echoed in the desire to destroy the existing power structure, which Jawad as the highest authority holder, by providing Amal with information previously withheld. This knowledge includes the sovereignty power in Abu, the concept of the panopticon prison that Amal felt in the Khan estate, to the allegory of the bird cage experienced by Baji. Resistance is prioritized by Amal to free her choice in her gender identity, and power relations are obliged to change with the resistance. Power in this discourse installs itself and produces real material effects, which social power structure and the prescribed gender norms also affect the relation between characters, and the appearance of gender identity by Amal can be seen as the action of resistance

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