Whether in be in Puritan styled courtroom or in a 50’s styled broadcasting room, both Arthur Miller's The Crucible and George Clooney’s Good night, and Good Luck have many similarities although set in completely different centuries. Both Miller and clooney created their masterpieces with the intent of making a social commentary on the corruption of power and the dangers of envy. Miller does so by writing of the judges who convict dozens of innocent people of witchcraft with no evidence. Clooney, does so by displaying senator McCarthy as an overzealous, unstable leader that would accuse innocent people of being communist and having communist sympathies. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck prove what happens