Part 1 of Essay
The ideas that Hobbes and Locke set forth in their essays are opposite each other. Hobbes retains the notion that if there is not a power to keep people in their place, they will continually be in war against each other. His Leviathan presents a bleak picture of human beings in the state of nature, where life is nasty, b ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... decided to voluntarily and mutually transfer our rights to another person or group in an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. He felt that absolute power was justifiable because of its usefulness and not on grounds of divine right. Hobbes explained that fear of violent death is the principle motive that causes people to create a state. In order to maintain a stable society, people made an unwritten “social contract.” So people chose a leader to rule them, and any attempt to break this contract i ....