Final Thoughts on the Cervantes Section

    As we mentioned before, the number of relevant pages obtained when looking for the terms “Cervantes” or “Don Quixote” was clearly smaller than the one about when we searched for “Shakespeare”. Nevertheless, in this section we found a greater variety of areas. Whereas with Shakespeare we got very few articles or essays actually written on Shakespeare or any of his plays, there were so many pages with essays on Cervantes or on “Don Quixote” that we had to narrow down the number. Here we even found some articles written by university professors, or professional writers. We could argue that compared to Shakespeare it is sad that Cervantes is basically known just for his famous novel, but we will agree that this one work has captivated the attention of many Japanese minds. Cervantes was trying to represent a very true image of Spain and the Spanish people through his novel. The story or at least the image that it created for those who did not read the novel was true enough to be able to make them associate the image of “Don Quixote” with the Spanish culture and Spanish reality in general. According to the pages we visited, this association between a work of fiction and the culture of a whole country did not seem to be happening to the same extent with the concepts of Shakespeare and Britain.