
As Ellen Page is the architect, praised for her ability to make mazes, her Greek name sack shares such similarities.
Ariadne in Mythology
Ariadne is a part of ancient Greek mythology. The common mythology about Ariadne is that she falls in love with Theseus (the founder-King of Athens), and helps him destroy her half-brother Minotaur.

Ariadne would then go to marry Theseus. Most accounts, for various reasons have Theseus abandoning Ariadne while she was sleeping, leaving her to be swept away and wed by Dionysus (the popular god of wine, theater, fertility, and celebration).
Ariadne in Inception

There's blinding allusions to this story in the puzzle solving, mazes, and even the sleep story, but I think those connections only go so far.
Although it is striking that like Ariadne, she is not the one who kills the minotaur, but rather provides him the tools to kill the beast as well as provide a way out. Perhaps there in lies the deepest meaning as it relates to this story.
Where I think you'd wish these illusions would provide some even deeper inner clues to the story, you only get a nugget here. At the same time, reflecting on this naming further demonstrates the art and care that went into this story.
3 comments:
My name is Ariadne Green, and my mother intuitively gave me the right name for a destiny as dream expert. I think Christopher Nolan may have created his character from my bio. I am the author of Ariadne's Book of Dreams, Warner Books 2001.
You notice just how many questions Ellen Page/Ariadne asks? The video edit "88 Questions with Ariadne" shows all of them - it's like a distilled version of her character's function as audience surrogate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT5-tq2XBbg
So good post
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