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Question
Bring out the irony in the message “Remember Caesar”
Solution
The message “Remember Caesar” was written by judge Weston. He himself forgot the context in which he had written it. Being an absent-minded fellow, he thought it was a coded message informing him of a well-thought-out the assassination on the Ides of March.
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