In his famous essay, "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?," L.C.Knights parries the question of Lady Macbeth’s motherhood and dismisses any enquiry into the subject as “pseudo-critical” and dramatically “irrelevant. “ On the other hand, Cleanthes Brooks has described the image of the child as “the central image of the play.” Sigmund Freud too has hinted at the childlessness of the Macbeths as “the central theme of the play/ “ Elizabeth Sacks has discovered that the creative principle in Shakespeare is rooted in the concept of pregnancy and that “the concept [of pregnancy] underlies key themes, permeates imagery and vivifies characters. “ She also considers Macbeth” a play that most abounds in the images of pregnancy. “Unfortunately, her study of Lady Macbeth leaves much to be desired." The present paper aims at exploring the significance of the question of Lady Macbeth’s motherhood. Though critical interest in the question has declined over the year. “I feed that an investigation into the subject is not an idle pursuit and that a proper study of the question whether the Macbeths have any child or are expecting one to be born should go a long way to enriching our response to some of the most sensitive situations in the play and help us acquire a better grasp of its emotional and thematic content. The play itself makes no mention of any living child of the Macbeths. On the contrary, it is clearly stated that Macbeth has “no children”) IV.iii 216) though it is suggested that they have had children as Lady Macbeth has “given suck” (I. vii. 52). At the same time both of them show such an anxiety and obsession to provide for their future that is seems either they have a child or are expecting one to be born to them. Against this background it does not seem inappropriate to expect Lady Macbeth to be in a state of pregnancy, most probably at the initial stages of pregnancy when the hopes and fears of birth are most intense. G. Wilson Knight, however, rules out any possibility of granting motherhood or any maternal potentialities to Lady Macbeth. Describing the evil in Macbeth as “absolute” and citing the general pattern in the tragedies of Shakespeare. Wilson Knight asserts that it will be more appropriate to show that wicked lady as “barren” and her husband as a scorpion stinging himself to death. Irving Ribner also says, “Macbeth is the destroyer of life, he cannot he portrayed as its creator, both these judgments seem somewhat harsh and incomplete. Throughout their villainous course the Macbeths preserve traces of their essential nobility. Macbeth is no Lago and the lady is no Goneril. The argument for pregnancy may run as follows: Lady Macbeth can be expected to retain her feminine and motherly claims till she allows the tender qualities in her to be hardened into those of “direst cruelty. “ As this process of hardening continues, the Macbeths forfeit their claims to parenthood. When after the murder of Banquo Macbeth goes to meet the witches to seek further encouragement in his wicked ways the “even-handed” Nature appears to have taken away their expected child, leaving the Lady an utter wreck. The reality of the argument of Lady Macbeth’s pregnancy and the miscarriage is brought home to us by a careful study of the various statements, utterances, and suggestions which may be analyzed as under. (a) The statements of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth