courage and not compromising compliance. For the first time, doing what is right is more important to her than her own well-being. All of it is brought out because Mordecai has urged her to see herself as part of a larger providential plan, to realize that the circumstances that have brought her to this moment have not been random or accidental, but rather have been orchestrated to give her a crucial and indispensible role to play in their people’s deliverance. Consequently, her distressing moment