Hey there guys.I'm also doing this exam.I'm doing 'The Tempest' as an isolated text and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' and 'The Rivals' as the comparison text.
For the Tempest,everything is pretty much straight forward and your argument could always sway in the way you interpret the play.The themes are also pretty evident: Isolation,colonialism,microcosm,revenge/forgiveness,
illusion,magic,power,confinement,love.I'm not entirely sure if I've missed anything out and I hope that considering the changes made to the board,the question will be in our favour. So hopefully they will have a question to do with power,revenge or the dramatic presentation of a character :Prospero,Caliban,Ariel,Miranda etc.
But I'm struggling with the comparison points for the two comparison texts considering they are different in so many ways (well to me anyway).Plus I'm also a little weak on 'The Rivals' especially in terms of Julia/Faulklands relationship and also some other bits.I was also wondering how others doing these texts have been revising so far.
It would be awesome if we could just come together and help each other out.