One of the main ways in which each main character represents another facet of Hugo’s view is that each character comes from very different backgrounds, meaning Hugo is able to use multiple "lenses".
The government has little to no involvement in the lives of the citizens.
The line given above that reveals a dramatic irony is that "The responsible party is a god." It could not be a woman because it is describing death nor it is not dead yet. It clearly says that death itself is a god and no one has ever felt that they could love death even if most of them wanted to die.
