Esther won her crown by winning a "beauty contest." In a book called Answers to Tough Questions From Every Book of the Bible, the author explains that entering the beauty contest meant becoming a wife of the king, so in that sense, Esther did nothing that was immoral.
When the Jews are threatened, Mordecai comes to Esther and challenges her, "The Jews will be saved (interesting, word "God" never appears in the story) even if you don't speak up, but you and "your father's house" will perish" see 4:13-14.
Esther responds by choosing to go before the king, saying the famous line "if I perish, I perish."
Was she willing to die for her people? No, she was willing to risk death for the chance of saving her people. She risked death just to talk to the king--there was no way of knowing if she would even be able to talk to the king and no way of knowing if the king would by sympathetic to her request.
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