Scarecrow/doll/Joseph ...and Cybele

Did anyone...(or is it too obvious) see the allegory between the doll, and Joseph and the scarecrow?

First, Agnes has the doll as her only companion, but her father throws it over the cliff, "killing" it. As a replacement, Agnes builds the scarecrow as her companion, which then comes "alive" in the Dean Stockwell character...

When Agnes first makes love to Joseph, we see the repaired doll on a shelf, but now Agnes doesn't need it anymore having "grown" out of childhood.

At the end of the film, Joseph is killed and falls off the cliff, just as the doll, but his love and compassion has already made Agnes a real women, therefore, as sad as she was, she didn't need him anymore.

Of course, circumstances leave Agnes with nowhere to go but stay home with her father, who was also changed by Joseph into being more compassionate towards his daughter.
What will actually happen to Agnes in the future is anyone's guess, but she is much better off emotionally now then in the beginning of the film...

Also, the love between Agnes and Joseph parallels the "love" between Pierre and Cybele, Gozzi's first film.

I haven't read any reviews of this film so maybe this has been noted before, but in case it wasn't, I am posting my take on it...