With a broad topic, there's a wide range of possible choices. You could do a scene in which a woman brings the wage gap up with her boss, or where a rich person, a middle class person, and a poor person walk into McDonald's and you could show what they're thinking.
Intelligent(he had greata great ability to memorise things ), ambitious, reckless (if you think of his will to fight against the russian during one of the coldest winters of the 19th century unprepared)