| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter 1 | 第12-25页 |
| ·Introduction to Edward Albee And His Major Works | 第12-14页 |
| ·Introduction to the Two Plays | 第14-18页 |
| ·Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as his best-known play | 第15-17页 |
| ·A Delicate Balance as his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play | 第17-18页 |
| ·Literature Review of Study on the Two Plays | 第18-23页 |
| ·Western researchers’study on the two plays | 第19-22页 |
| ·Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 第19-21页 |
| ·A Delicate Balance | 第21-22页 |
| ·Chinese study on the two plays | 第22-23页 |
| ·Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. | 第22-23页 |
| ·A Delicate Balance | 第23页 |
| ·Originality and Arrangement of This Thesis | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 2 THEORY AND METHOD | 第25-33页 |
| ·Jungian Archetypal Criticism | 第25-26页 |
| ·Archetypes | 第26-33页 |
| ·The Persona | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Shadow | 第29-30页 |
| ·The anima and animus | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter 3 THE NEGATIVE QUALITIES OF WIVES’PERSONALITIES INE DYSFUNTIONAL MARRIAGE | 第33-43页 |
| ·The Wicked Witch -- Martha with Negative Animus | 第33-37页 |
| ·The Ingenue -- Honey with Undeveloped Persona | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Delicate Fulcrum –Agnes with Excessive Persona | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter 4 THE DARK POTETIALS OF HUSBANDS’PERSONALITIES INE DYSFUNTIONAL MARRIAGE | 第43-53页 |
| ·The Games Producer -- George with Negative Anima and Aggressive Shadow | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Big Bad Wolf –Nick with Aggressive Shadow | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Detached Addict--Tobias with Undeveloped Anima and Passive Shadow | 第49-50页 |
| ·Comparison and Contrast between the Couples | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter 5 CONCLUSION | 第53-55页 |
| Works Cited | 第55-59页 |
