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Not really. At least, not in the manner he does it. Shylock is completely justified in hating Antonio - it’s rare you’ll find a production of the play performed post-WW2 that doesn’t sympathise with Shylock in that regard, at least to some degree. Antonio is an almost disgustingly hard anti-Semite who would make any decent human being today want to, at best, punch him for even half the things he says to Shylock, yes, but that on its own does not exactly justify Shylock wanting to quite literally cut out his heart. The important thing to remember is that Antonio has not broken any laws or done anything out of the ordinary for the society in which the characters exist; he even willingly accepts the penalty of a pound of his flesh for forfeiting the contract - it’s Shylock who’s the outlier. The worst Antonio has done (legally if not ethically) is break the terms of his contract with Shylock, an event that was completely out of Antonio’s control and one which Shylock pounces on as an opportunity to effectively commit lawful murder while ignoring all other (far more practical and humane) solutions that present themselves purely because he wants to personally ensure Antonio’s death in a frankly disturbing manner and it’s Shylock’s unrelenting desire for this specific form of revenge which ensures his downfall - if he had simply taken Bassanio’s offer of three times the amount Antonio was due to pay him, he would have been an astoundingly rich man as well as having displayed an alarming show of force to Antonio as a kind of “don’t screw with me” which could have stood him in better stead in their future interactions. As it is, Shylock eventually ends up losing all his leverage in the situation and ends up in a worse position than he’s ever been in throughout the play and he really does have no one but himself to blame for it.
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