The Pen is Mightier than the Sword-English Essay, Paragraph, Speech for Class 9, 10, 11 and 12 Students.

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

“If I got a sword, I shall kill thee, O my mighty master! but if thou give me a mighty pen, mightier than the sword of Alexander, I shall keep thy name immortally fresh,” thus said Bismark to his teacher Father Roadard.

The controversy, whether the sword is mightier than the pen or it is the pen which can overwhelm the sword, has been decided straight through. Now it has been established as a universal truth that the power and significance of the pen are higher than those of the sword. With the exception of certain brutish or bullying people, there is none in the modern world who would advocate the supremacy of sword over pen. Of course, in the crude old days, when might was right, people did prefer the power of sword to that of the pen.

The history of mankind, since the very dawn of civilisation, bears witness to the fact that the cult of sword-in the long run, of course, evaporated into utter insignificance. Great and mighty conquerors like Alexander, Caesar, Nero, Timur, Babar and many others, who rose with the help of the sword, could not retain the short-lived glory, which their conquests had given them. Of course, so long as they lived, they did maintain some although it was an awe-inspired fame-but after their death, they began to be looked down upon as criminals and blood-spillers. Even to this day, they are condemned as enemies of peace. Changez Khan, Halaku Khan and Charlemagne are condemned today as ‘monsters’ of war.

On the other hand, the great heroes of the pen-Homer, Kalidas, Tulsidas, Shakespeare, Firdausi, Milton and Tagore- who gave to the world new enlightenment and renaissance through their pens-are remembered with something of adoration and worship. Is there anyone today who could condemn these mighty wielders of pen? The great intellectual conquests, attained by these mighty heroes of the pen, can never dwindle into insignificance. Even to the edge of doom, the names of these Mighty Masters of Thought and Ideas would bloom fresh and their names shall ever be written in world history in the letters of gold.

Moreover, in the modern age, we are determined to declare war and violence as an outdated and condemned thing; in the present age, we are looking forward to the dawn of a new era pregnant with peace and peaceful co-existence. In such an age, the power of the sword has absolutely no significance. To talk of the sword these days is sheer foolishness.

Indeed, we arrive at the decision that the pen is far mightier than the sword and that its impact on human civilisation has always been creative and abiding.

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