The death of the king leaves Shrek as
the reluctant heir to the throne, and the ogre sails off to find a replacement in the person of Artie, a prep - school bully magnet with the voice of Justin Timberlake.
She is the rightful
heir to the
throne, so
to speak, yet a very
reluctant monarch, and fully conscious of her own limitations and, again, just
to repeat the salient point, since this is taking place in 1971 America: she's a woman and thus not truly considered an equal
to any man.