Joshua Cohen's Reaction to the Murder of Alyona and it's Implications to Raskolnikov

So, here we get to see Raskolnikov kill the broker, and we get evidence that he is not completely void of all emotions. He reacts like a normal person should when killing someone (not from personal experience), he is nervous about whether or not the old woman will notice his intentions, he is somewhat careless because he is distracted by the act of killing Alyona and he overlooks a few things. This is an important insight into Raskolnikov character in that he is not just a cold blooded killer, he is in fact human. Even though he had planned the murder out in his head so many times, he is still in shock after the killing. Yet, it is unclear as to whether he is disturbed about the general idea of killing people, or that he had to kill Alyona’s daughter which he had not intended to do. At this point in the story, Raskolnikov’s perception that he is the judge of moral justice has turned against him as he is now at the mercy of being punished for the moral wrongdoing of murdering two innocent women for his own benefit. I find it interesting that Raskolnikov is not actually being punished by an external source, as nobody has discovered that he has committed the crime yet, therefore any suffering that Raskolnikov feels is entirely his own punishment. He is hating himself for committing the crime, he cannot believe himself, and it is almost as if the part of him that strove to punish moral wrongdoings is separate from his conscious self, and has decided to punish himself. I feel like this is a foreshadowing for things to come later in the novel and I feel that Raskolnikov is going to end up having a personal crisis over this and will probably end up killing himself or those around him out of paranoia.