Young lovers are shown walking in a meadow, with flowers around them, trees, a sunny sky with a few puffy white clouds, maybe a river softly flowing in the distance. The young lovers are being identified with nature. We have here a clear example of identification as rhetoric. It is the rhetoric of such a romantic scene the way it appeals to an audience, its means of persuasion that we should see the young lovers as natural and nature as beautiful, that we should see their romance as beautiful as nature is beautiful, that we should identify them with nature. Proceed if you will to an ideological analysis.
Ideology is but a comprehensive persuasion, a form of rhetoric.
Ideology works not by force but by appeal, by persuasion. The study of rhetoric is the best way to understand the workings of ideology. Take the concept of interpellation , which in Althusserian theory is treated as a kind of coercion. Being interpellated, one is being identified as something a subject position one is being put into and one is being asked to identify oneself with something what that subject position represents. I was born in Havana.