>>The meme that you’re searching for, but coming up short with, is the old Freudian complex view of womankind as either “MADONNA” or “WHORE”.
Maybe that’s the meme you’re looking for but that’s not the bride Christ defines.
And Nuns "marry" Jesus, is Maria supposed to represent Nuns?
How about the writings and the subsequent movies made from the works of H. G. Wells? Were they all also heavily overlaid with Christian symbolism and Biblical references? After all Thea von Harbou wrote the novel that she and her husband, Fritz Lang turned into the movie was made from, was heavily influenced by Wells and his work. Hint...hint...Wells was a SOCIALIST, a Eugenicist, and yes, part of the Fabian group , from which the leaders of the Brit Suffragette Movement came from.