Yet despite Esther knows the danger of helping the Jews, she finally decides to go to visit the king. From the short and simple sentence "if I perish, I perish," her determination and courage to save all the Jews in the kingdom can be easily felt. E. C. Stanton and L. B. Chandler highly praises that "Esther is a woman who possesses wisdom and courage and who acts only in a self-sacrificing and queenly manner" ;