《谁害怕弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫》是美国著名剧作家爱德华·阿尔比的代表作。剧作家以荒诞的戏谑和剧内仪式的独特戏剧形式演绎了一部现代寓言,表现出现代人依赖自欺的幻想来获得救赎的心理状态。本文借助原型批评理论,着重分析此剧结构对宗教仪式的移用,以期挖掘隐喻背后的深层意蕴。 “Who is afraid of Virginia Wolfe” is a famous American playwright Edward Albi’s masterpiece. The playwright performed a modern allegory in the form of absurd banter and unique drama of the in-theater ritual, showing that modern people relied on self-deception fantasies to obtain the psychological state of redemption. Based on the theory of archetypal criticism, this thesis focuses on analyzing the shift of the structure of the drama to religious rituals in order to explore the deep meaning behind the metaphor.