compare the views of john locke with those of thomas hobbes regarding the character of human nature, political authority, and the right to rebellion

The answer is a combination of factors explained below.

Explanation:

On the one hand, Thomas Hobbes believed in the absolute monarchy and establishes a frame in where the men in the state of freedom were violent and that anarchy reign the world, situation called ''state of nature'' and therefore it was a need to the human kind to establish a social contract between them in order to obtain social order and avoy chaos. Moreover, in order to establish this social contract the free men must quit their liberties and rights so they could obtain security and by doing that the men created the state, a political organization that had no restrictions and limitations according to his theory, state that Hobbes called ''Leviatan''.

In the other hand, John Locke believed in the constitutional monarchy and establishes a frame in where the men in the state of freedom had private property but their rights to that were not secure and for that reason they established the social contract that creates the state that grants the rights to private property. Moreover, Locke unlike Hobbes believed that the people could depose of the monarch when he did his work wrong, therefore establishing that the people had the power and only they agreed to transfered it to the monarch.