In Tale of Two Cities Book II reflect on Darnay's decision to go to Fance. Does it seem believable?Is he fully aware of the danger he is in ?

This part of the novel comes in Chapter 24 in Book II,
entitled "Drawn to the Loadstone Rock". Darnay receives a letter which is actually for
him in his former identity as being the Evremonde heir. This letter narrates the
desperate position that his servant, Gabelle, is in, after following his orders. He is
trapped in prison and likely to be executed for his upper-class associations. Gabelle
writes:

For
the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name, I
supplicate you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, to succour and release me. My fault is,
that I have been true to you. Oh Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, I pray you be you true
to me!

These words of a
servant whose only crime was "fidelity" to himself and his family stirs Darnay into
remembrance of how he left France suddenly without tidying up all the loose
ends:

He knew
he ought to have systematically worked it out and supervised it, and that he had meant
to do it, and that it had never been
done.

Darnay therefore feels
a huge amount of guilt at the imprisonment of his servant, who he feels responsible for.
The text continues to say that he is well aware that the property of nobles in France
was being confiscated and destroyed and "there very names were blotting out", and so it
appears he is well aware of the danger. However, he goes on to reason, he himself is not
responsible for any oppression or cruely. Indeed, Gabelle was looking after the estate
with explicit written instructions to help the people as much as possible. Dickens
concludes:

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This favoured the desperate resolution that
Charles Darnay had begun to make, that he would go to
Paris.

Thus Darnay does seem
to be aware of the danger, however, one must ask why the resolution he makes to go to
Paris is described as "desperate" - is Darnay slightly naive in believing that, even
though he had good intentions, he will not be in trouble because of his noble descent?
Or is he the kind of man that thinks so well of everyone else that he could not
contemplate such injustice? This part of the story does show what kind of a man Darnay
is: good, honourable and seeking to help others, even at risk to his own
life.