Esther, the amazing story of a Jewish woman promoted to Queen, and saved her people. Esther's Jewish name was Hadassah, and she was an exiled Jew living in Susa. She was pulled away from her cousin Mordecai, who was raising her, and forced into a "beauty contest" to replace the banished queen Vashti. People don't always understand what this meant as far as the course of her life. If she didn't win, she didn't get to go back to her regular life. Her night with the King meant he had sex with her, whether she wanted it or not, and she became part of his harem, where she would remain, pretty much imprisoned in a gilded cage, for the rest of her life, unable to have a husband, a family, or do what she wanted with her life.
However, she was the winner. She kept her Jewish heritage hidden, and she became favored in the eyes of the King. Because of this, she was able to approach the king (normally that would mean immediate death if not invited or pardoned) and eventually let him know of the conspiracy to destroy her people.
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