Adaptation is re-writing a work that has been previously published in a new form. In this research, Aphrah Behn’s narrative work, Oroonoko and Thomas Southern’s adaptation of the text are read to examine the creative aesthetics of Southern’s Oroonoko as a literary adaptation. This qualitative research, through comparative and contrastive analysis, argues that Southerne’s adaptation of Behn’s prose helps to emphasize and escalate Behn’s thematic concerns especially the anti-slavery subject matter prominent in the narrative. By extension, Southerne’s adaptation also exposes the pretensions of English society, especially the women, through the characters of the Weldonn sisters. In conclusion, this paper asserts that literary adaptations possess creative aesthetics and strongly affirms that the playwright and the prose narrator share the same responsibilities to entertain, criticize or condemn any identified wrong in society.