I seem to recall asking a question like this when I taught a summer session course on Western Classical music. Hehe. I'm not going to write your essay for you, but you should consider the way Beethoven uses his main theme(s).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.