Marionettes are characterizations of important symbols or icons within the culture they are made.  They are containers of emotion that can adapt storytelling and role playing to a visual form of communication.  These characters are animated by the storytellers to visually demonstrate a story to the community.  These forms of entertainment teach the community how to react, how to bring order to their lives, and even find happiness through means of dodging certain lifestyles that lead to catastrophe.
    The best explanation of this practice comes from the short essay Toys out of Roland Barthes’s Mythologies.  
In this essay Barthes explains that toys basically are a microcosm of our own world.   The toys become a way of stepping of one’s secular view and seeing the subject from a wider spectrum.  None of these toys are created only to be aesthetically pleasing, but to train the owner of the order which should be taken within their culture.  Dolls and marionettes enable humankind to see themselves in action and in situations which can be replayed consecutively until the action is perfected.  
    “ The fact that toys literally prefigure the world of adult functions obviously cannot but prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen and Vespas.” ( Barthes, pg53).

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