: Traditional marionettes often use nine primary strings—to the knees, hands, shoulders, head, and lower back—attached to a control bar [13].

: Authors like Heinrich von Kleist in On the Marionette Theatre suggest that puppets possess a grace and lack of self-consciousness that humans lost after the fall from innocence [2, 4].

In daily language, calling someone a "marionette" implies they are being manipulated by a hidden power [6]. Organizations sometimes use the "marionette" framework to help employees reclaim their agency from rigid, entrenched systems [12].