Puppet

A puppet is a representational figure manipulated by a puppeteer. It is usually but not always a depiction of a human character and is used in (a) play or a presentation. The puppet undergoes a process of transformation through being animated, and is normally manipulated by one, or sometimes more than one, puppeteer. Some puppets can be moved electronically. there are lots of different things that puppets are used for. some for entertainment, some for politics and some for Culture. Puppets are made of a wide range of materials, depending on the effect required and the amount of usage intended. They can be extremely complex or very simple in their construction. There are many different varieties of puppets. Oscar Wilde wrote about puppetry, "There are many advantages in puppets. They never argue. They have no crude views about art. They have no private lives." "A puppet is not an actor and a puppet theatre is not human theatre in miniature, because when an actor 'represents', a... full article at wikipedia