| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 旅遊事業管理學系碩士班 === 96 === The experience of visiting exotic places gives the tourist an opportunity to extract himself from the mundaneness of everyday life. Living in a different time-space conjunction creates a gap where we can explore human possibilities in different cultures. My dissertation utilises the film “Monday Morning” to analyse the subject of travel. I focus my attention on three specific aspects/stages of the topic: the escape, the journey and the return. The main concern of my research is to map out the social and psychological background of travel. Borrowing the insights of Emile Durkheim (the divide between the sacred and the profane) and Gennep (rites of passage) and the synthesis of Graburn and Jafari, I argue that travel constitutes a significant outlet for relief, for self-fulfilment and for experiencing the meaning of existence and life. By using the narrative analysis method, I interpret the pilgrimage aspects of travel and the inner mobility which relates to the change of scene. The chronological transformation of travel: the Pilgrimage in the middle-age, the Crusade, the eye-opening journeys made by scholars during the Renaissance, the expansionist, cross-oceanic ventures, the modern-day popular tourism, and the in-depth explorations all redefine the boundary and interchange between everyday life and travel. Specifically, the pilgrimage dimensions of travel bring out a more spiritual angle of the experience; i.e., the restructuring of the mind and the triumph over difficulties. From such a perspective, travel can be seen as a ritual: a process which ushers in the beginning of a new life stage for any accidental tourist.
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