Lady Bracknell didn't want her daughter Gwendolen to marry a poor man like Jack, but it turns out that Jack is quite wealthy, and in the end she agrees to them marrying, as she is quite shallow.
Explanation:
After discovering out that Cecily is very wealthy, Lady Bracknell gives assent for Cecily and Algernon to espouse. But Jack as Cecily's guardian does not need to give the assent unless Lady Bracknell permits him to marry Gwendolen, her Daughter.
Lady Bracknell didn't want her daughter Gwendolen to marry a poor man like Jack, but it turns out that Jack is quite wealthy, and in the end she agrees to them marrying, as she is quite shallow.
In his famous "House Divided" speech of 1858, Lincoln predicts that if the issue of slavery isn't rectified then the United States will not be able to endure in its present condition. Instead of being "half slave, half free" it will have to become completely one thing or the other, wholly slave or wholly free.
