Verisimiliwhat?

This was very confusing.
Verisimilitude seemed to be the varying degrees of truth in a novel or play etc.
As a concept I can understand this, but when we applied it to Dracula I found it quite hard to judge what the author used to portray fact and why he was doing it.
Looking at the extracts showed me that it was used to sort of lull the reader into a false sense of security of reality. Then Stoker gradually alters his style so fantasy takes over.
This is very interesting as I hadn't really thought about that as a writing technique but now that I think about it, quite a lot of writers do it. I hate to mention Twilight and seem obssessed (cos I am) but it happens in that, and Harry Potter etc.

The other thing about this was the seeming conflict in the novel Dracula, between the progression of technology in society, and the regression of turning to the supernatural.
I found this interesting because the Victorian times were a period of great change and triumph in things like science and technology. But Bram Stoker chooses to portray the use of supernatural as power. Van Helsing reverts to superstitions like garlic to ward off vampires, which works better than other methods.

Ta.