if you had the chance to be someone else, who would you choose to be? explain what would be good about being that person, and what might be difficult

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians

Explanation:

If I had the chance, I would choose to be Æthelflæd, daughter of King Alfred the Great. She was a strong and fearless woman who participated in battles against Viking raids in England's old heptarchy during the tenth century.

It would be good to be Æthelflæd because she was not afraid to fight in battle for her country next to and against an army of violent men. Thus, she grew into an inspiring figure at a time when women were property of men. In fact, when her husband Æthelred became ill, she ruled Mercia, even though women were not usually powerful.

On the other hand, Æthelflæd must have found it difficult to make her path and maintain her power against so many men in a terribly sexist and competitive society. Besides, in those times there did not exist many technological or medical advances, so it must have been hard to live in cold  weather, with poor hygene habits and the spread of diseases. In fact, she died quite young, at about the age of forty-eight.

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