Hobbes has described the natural state as the state prior or the establishment of state and society. Hobbes, in his book, has described negative behaviour and nature of an individual. According to him, a human is an unsocial creature. He is a selfish, arrogant and quarrelsome creature. He always loves power and also tries to get power. According to Hobbes, a person takes recourse to fraud and deceit in order to accomplish his motives.
Lie, deceit and enmity are his main tools. According to Hobbes, a person has some qualities also, but these are not the parts of his natural behaviour. Because of evil tendencies in one’s behaviour, the natural state was the state of continuous war and struggle. In this, every person was in a state of struggle against one another. In this way, in the natural state, human life was lonely, impoverished, difficult, wild and unsafe.
