Charles Darnay’s return to France was his way of embracing and fulfilling fate because it is his role as the Marquis to be aristocratic, and to die with the revolution. In Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay leaves his new home in England with the Manettes to return to his early home in France. Earlier in this book he renounced his evil, aristocratic family and moves to England, where he marries Lucie Manette and begins his second life. When the revolution starts, Darnay receives a letter from his old family servant Gabelle, who has been imprisoned because of his association with the Marquis. Gabelle pleads for Darnay to come back to France and take over his land, so that Gabelle may possibly be spared. Darnay feels as if
