Sexuality is an underlying force that drives the plot in the beggining of the book. Which the king makes explicit when he "commanded ... the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasuerus as

It seems that the elements of dichotomy and irony run parallel throughout the book. While there are many more examples of the use of irony in the Book of Esther I beileve that the ones that I chose to illustrate offer the broadest view of the different kinds of irony used in the Book of Esther. Indeed the obvious conclusion is that the author of the Book of Esther knew what he was doing by displaying the eventual success of good over evil through the use of irony.

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chamberlains [...] to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was fair to behold" (1: 10-11). This command is not important merely as a royal decree,

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)