Queen Esther's Pleading for the Jews to Be Enslaved

Queen esther tries to get into king ahazuerus' shoes by framing matters in terms of a threat upon her life. If the jews could reasonably be painted as insurrectionists and sold as slaves, then they will surely not be deserving of the much harsher penalty of genicide. She had framed her appeal to him in a way that might distract him from these facts. The pressing ethical question of how he is to treat the jews weighs far less heavily upon his mind at this time than the more personal and immediate questions of how he stands relative to his wife,. queen esther has seemingly shown particular ther shocked and angered at the revelation  that she was a jew.