Samuel Johnsons Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnsons other works or other 18thcentury works ?

A. The need for self-sufficiency as detailed in novels like Robinson Crusoe

B. The ultimate impossibility of achieving happiness, as espoused in his poem The Vanity of Human Wishes

C. The need for linguistic correctness as exemplified in his Dictionary

D. The promise of universal knowledge as epitomized by the Encyclopdie

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