what comparison does celia use in order to describe rosalind's condition?
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Rosalind and Celia have grown up together and have formed a strong attachment. Rosalind has the much stronger character. She is more intelligent than Celia and also more self-reliant, enterprising, and resourceful. Celia is dependent and submissive. Rosalind makes a good leader and Celia a good follower. It is not surprising that it is Rosalind who decides to disguise herself as a man when the two flee from Celia's father's palace to the Forest of Arden. Rosalind also shows herself to be more assertive when she encounters Orlando. She is already in love with him but feels obliged to maintain her masculine disguise because she is acting as Celia's protector. Rosalind displays her cleverness in her battles of wit with Orlando in Act 3, Scene 2 and elsewhere thereafter.
Rosalind is peremptorily banished from her uncle Duke Frederick's court because he perceives that she outshines his own daughter Celia. He tells his daughter:
She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,
Her very silence and...