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- Since passover is coming up soon do you ever wonder about the way the women in the story of Esther were treated?
- You know, I've never thought about the story of Esther like that, that's really interesting. Do you think gender roles are meant to be a central part of the story?
- I think that the distinction and separation between both men and women plays a large part in delivering the main focus of the male power in the story of Esther. From the beginning of Megillah Esther the subtle down look and obvious objectification towards women was a prominent characteristic displayed in the story.
- Oh wow that's actually a really good point! But in what parts of the story does stuff like what you just said happen?
- I'll show you! The first one shows up right at (1:11-12)
- This part begins with Queen Vashti being told to present herself beautifully and dress her best for the people and respected officials. Queen Vashti refused and due to her not agreeing the king who was the highest of power became furious!
- Before I go the last thing I will say is in (2:17) the text says “The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she won his grace and loyal favor more than all the virgins. So he set a royal diadem on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti” (2:17) King Ahasuerus found Esther beautiful compared to all the other women which were refferrd to as the virgins, this distinction is what made the king make a change and make Esther his new queen.
- The way that Vashti was being ordered to dress up just for the appeal and "acceptance" from others would also make me want to refuse!
- Now that I think about it I am remembering that right after Queen Vashti's multiple refusals toward the king in (1:16-17), an ultimate verdict was established for Persia and Medina. In which stating that Queen Vashti is never permitted to “enter the prescience” of king Ahasuerus. This was the igher power ordering the lower power in the case of not being abided to.
- Yes!!! And soon after that...
- I found that a little weird because normally people don’t refer to their daughters in the way Mordechai had. I think that the way she was described shows us how the view on women may have been back then and was used to catch many males attention...even father figures.
- In this part of the chapter Mordechai had taken the maiden (Esther) in as his own, but the quote begins by subjectively describing Esther as “shapely and beautiful” making the reader thinkthat Mordechai may have thought of her as a romantic interest but turned out to be him taking her in as his daughter.
- and then in (2:7) it says, “The maiden was shapely and beautiful; and when her father and mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.”
- That girl was a little weird but she knew her stuff! But one thing I am wondering is why does this all mater and what does it even mean??
- well...
- So like how this idea of gender and objectifying women is now a highly discussed topic but, who knew the same actions that are targeted towards women now in the 21st century also happened all the way back in the story of Esther. Now I think the exploration of this idea is important because when reading the story of Esther we are being shown the reality of how things like the election of the queens came to be based on beauty and how the favoritism towards women was solely based on appearance and cosmetic presentation; which is a harsh reality we still face to this day.
- ...With this we can see that a women’s beauty was really all that mattered. The beauty is what persuaded the king to make Esther queen which shows that a women’s beauty really was a large piece in this section of the Torah and really brings the attention of this small but large characteristic...a women’s beauty.
- That girl was a little weird but she knew her stuff! But one thing I am wondering is why does this all mater and what does it even mean??
- well...
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