thesis for 10-page paper on Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"

I'm writing a 10-page research paper for my english class on Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" and I'm having trouble coming up with a good thesis that I could actually write 10 pages on. Several examples would be greatly appreciated as well as general ideas on how to go about writing it.

In this problem we will discuss the main characteristics of Romanticism in Europe.

What are some of the main characteristics of Romanticism in Europe?

Madame Bovary

1. Identify Four Characteristicts of Nineteenth Century Realism, and show how these are dealt with in Madame Bovary? 2. What is the importance of the "clubfoot episode" in Madame Bovary? What do we learn from the actions of thte participants and from Flaubert's style of using detail? 3. Discuss the Sybolism of wedding bourquets (both Emma's and the first Madame Bovary's) in Madame Bovary?

Hedda Gabler

I'm reading Hedda Gabler in class. As I was reading, the character Hedda seemed to resemble two other characters from different readings: the main character in Camue's 'Stranger' and the wife in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain.' I've done some web searches and found out that the main reasons why she commits suisicde are 'her place into society, her emotional state, her lack of power, her lifestyle'(www.literatureclassics.com). Then can't she be no different from the main character in 'Stranger?' In Stranger, Meursault had no emotional feelings/religious belief /hope /desire because the society he lived at that time was just after the world war. Hedda is empty of feeling due to the social co... click for more

Frederick Douglass

What is a Jerimiah? Why would douglass be considered a Jeremiah? And in his book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, how does he demonstrate this idea?