Hobbes is a character in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. He is Calvin's stuffed tiger, and is depicted with two distinct identities.
From the perspective of his owner, Calvin, Hobbes is a real individual with thoughts, feelings and ideas just as every other character. From everyone else's perspective, Hobbes is seen as Calvin's stuffed tiger, given personality and action only by Calvin's active imagination. He is named after ...
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Hobbes is a character in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. He is Calvin's stuffed tiger, and is depicted with two distinct identities.
From the perspective of his owner, Calvin, Hobbes is a real individual with thoughts, feelings and ideas just as every other character. From everyone else's perspective, Hobbes is seen as Calvin's stuffed tiger, given personality and action only by Calvin's active imagination. He is named after 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson described as "a dim view of human nature." (Thomas Hobbes is famous for his claim that humans' natural state is a state of war, where "the life of man [is], solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.") Hobbes is much more rational and aware of consequences than Calvin, but seldom interferes with Calvin's troublemaking beyond a few oblique warnings — after all, Calvin will be the one to get in trouble for it, not Hobbes.
For the most part, Calvin and Hobbes converse and play...
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