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प्रश्न
Bring out the irony in the message “Remember Caesar”
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उत्तर
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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