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In a comparative study between a novel and a movie which adapts the novel, the movie has not been unnoticed yet, because the novel has been considered much more important. So, this thesis studies “Milyang,” which dramatizes a novel, “The Story of A Worm” but has its own story values, and tries to identify its own originality. By analyzing “The Story of A Worm,” this thesis finds out some facts. First, it has an enigmatic structure which repeats encoding and decoding. Secondly, it ends with a wife's death and the limitation of human power before God. Thirdly, mental process of a wife or a narrator repeats and changes by stages, and it engages with tragic descending structure which ends in catastrophic death. “Milyang” has a ‘secret’ structure, which induces detection of a tragic life's reason which is hidden in a veil of mystery, by analyzing the characteristics of ‘Shinae.’ And the secret of God's existence presented as parts of Nature, such as sky, cloud, sunlight, etc. is described as the theme of sin, forgiveness, and redemption. “Milyang” shows a possibility of redemption through its ending. It ends with not Shinae's death but her attempted suicide. And she gets back to normal when she is out of a mental hospital. She also has her hair cut for herself. There would be always Jongchan next to her, reflecting her with a mirror. And at that moment, sun shines brightly. “Story of Worm” and “Milyang” use the same motif: disappearance and kidnapping in their surface structure, and forgiveness and redemption in deep structure. Especially, Both of them focus on not missing and death of a child but human's ineffective struggle against God through mental process of a wife/Shinae. They have some differences, however. Disappearance of a child in “The Story of A Worm” is like a violence of a life without any previous warning. It is because of tragic reality. On the other hand, a child missing in “Milyang” is caused by Shinae's show-off. A wife in “The Story of A Worm” accepts naturally the existence of God after disappearance and death of her child. However, Shinae denies the invisible thing at first but in the end meets God, sobbing desperately after her child's death. At the last scene of “Milyang,” Shinae has her hair cut looking into a mirror, contrary to a wife's death in “The Story of A Worm.” It means a new possibility of her recovery. In conclusion, there are major two differences between them. First, although it is an adapted movie from a novel, “Milyang” becomes more extensive work through creative reconstruction of characters, intense and dramatic confrontation consciousness, symbolic ending, etc. Secondly, the common themes of both works, such as life and death, sin and redemption, forgiveness and revenge, God and human, etc. meet with various movie elements, like music, illumination, direction, camera technique, etc., and thus leads to new aesthetic possibility and philosophic introspection.