Gothic literature is a genre fashioned to portray hidden fantasies and asocial behavior, only to go against social boundaries and emphasize them in the end. This chapter focuses on the representation of male characters in Bram Stoker's gothic text Dracula. Gothic texts not only violate social norms, but throughout the nineteenth century male characters had a persistent need to conform to society's high standards. Several writers of the Victorian era expressed feelings of repressed sexuality and gender issues, Dracula is one of many Gothic novels that keep these issues central. Men have had to ignore their individual needs for sexual intercourse and playing the game to fit in with society. Gothic characterizes this emotional war fought within anxious males and expresses these ideas of homosexuality and violation of social norms in a negative light. One of the main themes of Dracula is the triumph of the masculine over the feminine. This interpretation is not limited to the treatment of the characters. Although the men – Van Helsing, Seward, Godalming, Morris and Harker save the female character, Mina Harker, from the evil hands of another male, Count Dracula, their true triumph is over the female forces he represents. In Dracula anxiety is shown when the male characters are left alone with the females – Harker writes in his diary 'I am alone in the castle with those horrible women. It sucks! Mina is a woman and there is nothing in common. They are devils of the Abyss!». (p.46) here we see Mina contrasted with the three Brides of Dracula, Harker portrays them as complete opposites. Masculinity remains the most powerful position, despite the depiction of powerful women on the surface... in the center of the card... "minals, savages and apes", and it is stated that degenerates were a biological regression to primitive man. .To conclude, this novel intentionally exposes and reverses contemporary forces that undermine masculinity's position as the dominant gender. These challenges attempt to subvert these threats ultimately only to reiterate their power and that of women in society. Although Stoker promotes traditional female submission to the male, this represents the importance of the female, they are passive and will transform into the male if this is a way to gain authority. This confirms once again that masculinity takes over the female character rather than decreasing the social power of women. Regardless of the work to overcome the weaknesses of masculinity, this novel only further exposes the vulnerable state that the male gender finds itself in during this time..