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Quote #10
PROMETHEUS. There is no ill-treatment, no contrivance, by which Zeus will induce me to reveal this secret, until these degrading bonds have been unloosed. So let him hurl his blazing fire, let him throw everything into turmoil and confusion with his white feathers of snow and his thunders rumbling beneath the earth: none of that will bend me to make me say at whose hands he is destined to fall from his supreme power. (986-996)
Even though Prometheus is in chains, he continues to assert his own freedom—he is seriously not going to take orders from Zeus, not like that child Hermes. Even though Hermes is ahead in that he's not, you know, chained to a rock, Zeus is still controlling his mind and behavior.