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In Kabuki theatre, the puppets are designed so intricately to create an illusion that is so lifelike. This is so that it suspends the audience into believing that they are humans, even though there was the initial recognition of them as puppets. The illusion becomes so seductive that the audience no longer takes a conscious recognition of the puppeteers orchestrating them or the fact that the puppets are not real individual. By doing this and using puppets, the audience is unconsciously forced to pay more attention to the diction and not the spectacle. (Even though in kabuki theatre the heads are not made proportional to the bodies and they are made smaller just so that the audience has a deeper appreciation of the illusion and the smooth motion of the puppet.) This form of seduction is called willing suspension of disbelief. The audience knows the characters are puppets but subconsciously characterize them as human characters. The audience is still willing to watch and participate to get the bigger meaning behind the play than the initial recognition of what is before them. This is common in our society, because everyday millions of people go to the movies and buy the fact that it is a 3D image when it is literally just a flat screen.