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Atwood’s re-contextualisation of The Tempest allows the audience to take away a much deeper perspective of the text that was originally given. Through this textual conversation, our understanding of justice from Hag-Seed, gives us the conclusion that justice is restorative to the desire of the individual or the collection. The patriarchal perspective in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, brings to the consideration that this is inequitable for women and is not just in this society. Hence, justice in The Tempest is ambiguous and highly subjective, the restoration for justice is the request of a person’s own intentions and benefit, there is no form of justice in The Tempest, but if so, based on the desire of an individual.