In Book 2, Chapter 7, Julia says:
"It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything -- anything -- but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you."
What Julia means by this comment is that the party can monitor a person's thoughts and actions, through the telescreens, and can control their knowledge and understanding, through propaganda. They can even force a person to confess to a crime,...
In Book 2, Chapter 7, Julia says:
"It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything -- anything -- but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you."
What Julia means by this comment is that the party can monitor a person's thoughts and actions, through the telescreens, and can control their knowledge and understanding, through propaganda. They can even force a person to confess to a crime, through torture, but they can never change the way a person naturally thinks and feels. She believes thought-control to be far outside of the party's realm; that people are too independent to succumb to brainwashing. She, therefore, represents the spirit of free thinking and this is one of the reasons why her fate in the book is so tragic. In an ironic twist, the party can and do get inside Julia's mind and change her thoughts. Though repeated torture, she repents of her previous political allegiances and learns to love Big Brother. This change is evident when Winston meets her again in Book 3, Chapter 6:
"He did not attempt to kiss her, nor did they speak. As they walked back across the grass, she looked directly at him for the first time. It was only a momentary glance, full of contempt and dislike."
Gone is the Julia who believed in her ability to control her own mind and, in her place, is a woman who has been broken and enslaved by Big Brother.
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