Who is the audience of the Book of Esther?

A:The Book of Esther portrays the Jews in the Persian court as having the highest moral virtues, courage, honour and loyalty to the king. At the same time, the book portrays Esther's enemies as despicable cowards who deserved to be slaughtered, even after they had been utterly defeated. It is like a 'Boys Own' book that glorified everything about the diaspora Jews. It was, of course, a Jewish novel written in the second century BCE for Jews.