Anti-Semitism In Andorra

In principle, Andorra is about anti-Semitism and its significances. All the events happen in a state called Andorra. This is not the territory of Andorra, which is a small country in Europe but a made-up country that is a symbolic value for any land. This is to highlight that what occurs here could materialise in any country, period or culture.
The central character is a young male called Andri, who resides with The Teacher (majority of the minor characters in the play have no name but are refer to as, e.g. The Teacher, The Landlord, The Somebody (a character who signifies the "aged, unbiased crowds") and so on). The Teacher has expressed to everybody that Andri is his adopted son, who he protected from "The Blacks". The Blacks are intimidating (probably anti-Semitic) people from a …show more content…
She tries to convey to all the citizens that Andri is not a Jew but on the other hand that he is her own brother, but the citizens are all selfish and only consider saving themselves. The Somebody is firstly recognized as a Jew, but is capable to move along after The Soldier comes to his aid. Then the Jew Spotter "categorises" Andri as a Jew, and he is led away by soldiers. "„Man hört nur einen Schrei“ "(""We only hear a cry"") (Twelfth Picture), and the reader has to accept that Andri has been murdered. His shoes stay metaphorically on the stage for the remainder of the play.
In the end, we the reader are made aware that The Teacher takes his own life because he accepts his guilt for the mistreatment of Andri. Barblin, who has had her hair shaved off as a "Jew's whore", goes furious. In this way, she too is a victim of anti-Semitism. As at the very opening, she whitewashes in order that Andorra can again become "as white as snow", since white is the colour of innocence. This is extremely symbolic as the citizens of Andorra believed that Andorra was the land of freedom and human