On Liberty and The Subjection of Women

1. How does Mill's style compare to Carlyle's?
2. What is Mill's attitude to custom, both in general in On Liberty and in the particular case of the relationship between the sexes in The Subjection?
3. Why does Mill think individuality is so important? Does he place any constraints on individual liberty?
4. How do Mill's views of duty, self-fulfillment and happiness, democracy, and progress compare to Carlyle's? Mill claims to offer a different view of government and leadership from Carlyle's when he declares that he is "not countenancing the sort of 'hero worship' which applauds the strong man of genius" (1152). Just how does Mill's position differ from Carlyle's on this issue?
5. How does Mill respond to the claims that the subjection of women to men is natural, that women and men are clearly meant to play different roles, and that women's acceptance of their position confirms this?
6. Why does Mill repeatedly liken the position of Englishwomen to that of slaves?
7. In one of The Subjection's most famous and extended metaphors, Mill says that women are like hot-house plants (1161). How does this extended metaphor work? What is Mill trying to say, and why is this metaphor so effective for doing so?