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Everyday Life In Early America Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes the lives of the average, seventeenth-century inhabitant of the British Isles and Northern Europe as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." More specifically, these five main categories can reduce to three major categories. (“Nasty, brutish and short.”) To maintain order, he thought the people needed a dictator, to get the people out of this state of chaos. His name for this was Leviathan. When the people agreed, he was given absolute power. Seventeenth-century English America was not fertile territory for Hobbesian “absolutism.” The lives of residents of The British Isles and Northern Europe was not as “brutish, nasty, or short” as Thomas Hobbes describes it as in the book, “Everyday Life In Early America; written by David Freeman Hawke. Instead, the seventeenth-century Americans were Independent, intrepid, and willing. The lives of seventeenth-century Americans were greatly affected by Independence. From the beginning, the settlers related with independence, one example would be that they came to America in the first place to gain independence from the English government. More specifically it was the absolute power of the ki